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Historical Event on 5/8/1997

Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion.

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9/4/1927World fliers reach Karachi, India.
6/17/1993Congress (I) working committee reaffirms its faith in Rao; BJP asks for PM's resignation .
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10/30/1883Swami Dayanand Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj, died in Ajmer.
9/24/1997E. S. Venkataramiah (72), former Chief Justice of India, died in Bangalore.
7/4/1933Mahatma Gandhi sentenced to one year imprisonment.
4/3/1999India's INSAT-2E multipurpose telecommunications satellite is successfully launched from the Kourou space station in French Guyana.