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Historical Event on 9/5/1997

Mother Teresa, founder of Missionaries of Charity who was awarded with Nobel Prize (1979) and Bharat Ratna, died at the age of 87 due to heart attack late in the evening around 9:30 pm in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/6/1989Six top Cricket stars banned for one year from all cricket activities on the issue of American tour.
7/5/1993Air Marshal Swarup Krishna Kaul appointed Chief of Air Staff.
4/23/1930Riots break out in Peshawar; 20 Indians shot down after killing of three Britishers.
3/16/1997The first batch of three Russian-made Sukhoi-30 combat aircraft reaches India.
11/24/1930Chandrakant Trimbak Patankar, cricketer ( wicket keeper in one Test India vs NZ 1955-56), was born in Pen, Maharashtra.
3/17/1995Congress-I in Arunachal Pradesh wins two-third majority.
8/3/1991About 280 kgs of gold ornaments valued at $15 million, which had been deposited in the Portuguese bank in Goa by its natives, flown back to India.
1/10/199728th International Film Festival of India opens at Trivandrum.
11/13/1970Flooding ravages Ganges delta. 200,000 million killed.
11/9/1924Pandit C. R. Vyas, veteran singer, was born.