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Historical Event on 5/7/1990

Government of India bans strikes in any service in any oil field or refinery under the Essential Services Maintenance Act.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/24/1995Congress (I) suspends Arjun Singh from the party.
12/11/1876Raobahadur Yeshwantrao Harishchandra Desai, famous architect, was born.
11/19/1977Cyclone hits Andhra Pradesh causing flooding and tidal waves and killing 10,000.
12/31/1738Lord Charles Cornvalis, Governor General of India (1786-1793), was born.
5/5/1947Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable.
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
7/16/1981India performs nuclear Test.
4/22/1994Chabbildas Mehta sworn in as Gujarat CM.
9/26/1923Dev Anand, film producer, director and actor, was born.
4/24/1959Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie.