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Historical Event on 5/7/2000

Ranjit Singh Gill, one of the prime accused in the murder of Lalit Maken and his wife Geetanjali, who was the daughter of the late President Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, on July 31, 1985, was extradited to Delhi from the US to stand trial in the case.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/27/1973The first Ladies Police Station started functioning at Calicut in Kerala.
3/27/1997South African President Nelson Mandela arrives in New Delhi on official visit.
12/29/1949Syed Mujtaba Hussain Kirmani, cricketer (Indian keeper after Engineer), was born in Madras.
11/13/1901War Secretary Brodrick claimed that Boers were killing natives in large numbers. He intended to withdraw troops from India to fight in S. Africa at London.
4/26/1995Indian Newspaper Society (INS) calls off stir plans following Government conceding a major demand of the newspaper industry by putting newsprint on the Open General Licence (OGL) and abolish the condition requiring newspapers to buy two tonnes of indigenous newsprint in order to import one tonne.
7/25/1961Delhi upgraded as an A-class city on the basis of provisional Census figures of 1961.
9/21/1945British promise India independence.
10/6/1999Suraj Bhan sworn in Governor of Bihar.
10/19/1999Sonia Gandhi will be the leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, says the Congress(I).
11/9/1998India rejects Pakistan's bid to internalise the Sir Creek issue at the bilaternal talks in New Delhi.