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Historical Event on 9/5/1998

University and college teachers affiliated to the All-India Federation of University and College Teachers Organisations call off their nation-wide strike.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/21/1911Umashankar Jethalal Joshi, famous Gujarati poet, Hindi writer and educationist, was born at Bamna in Gujarat.
6/24/1966Atul Chandrakant Bedade, cricketer (Indian ODI batsman from 1994), was born in Bombay.
8/13/1993Rama Rao vows not to return to the house unless the government is ousted.
9/30/1996Centre gives its consent to Tamil Nadu government's decision to rename Madras as Chennai.
5/27/1952United Nationalist Party and the Indian Democratic Party combined to form one opposition party - National Democratic Party with Dr. S. P. Mukherjee as leader.
7/2/1997Screening for Hepatitis C made mandatory all over India.
4/12/1978India's first double decker train was started between Victoria Terminus (CST) and Pune which beared the name as ""Janta Express"", which is now known under the name of Shivaji's fort as ""Singhgarh Express"".
3/12/1967Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister of India for the second time after winning the General Elections.
6/1/1992S.K. Datta became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/07/93).
9/24/1936It was reported that in the past two weeks over 2 million of India's depressed classes had renounced Hinduism in favor of Christianity.