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Historical Event on 5/31/1921
Suresh Hariprasad Joshi, modern Gujarati poet, story writer and critic, was born.
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| 10/12/1990 | Government of India announces a 15\% cut in oil consumption, exempting LPG and kerosene. |
| 6/16/1951 | Nehru opponents founded People's party at New Delhi. |
| 5/18/1901 | Nibaran Chandra Chakrabarti, great poet and Hindi writer, was born in Brahmangaon, (Dacca). |
| 8/3/1886 | Maithili Sharan Gupta, first man of modern Hindi poetry and literature, writer, patriot and social worker, was born at Chirgaon village near Jhansi. |
| 6/16/1997 | K. R. Narayanan, Vice-President, is the joint candidate of Congress(I) and United Front for Presidentship in July 14 election. |
| 4/12/1997 | Maharashtra assembly adopts bill banning interviews for admitting students to pre-primary schools. |
| 5/23/1947 | The U.K. Cabinet today took the historic step of agreeing to Lord Mountbatten's proposal for the partition of India into two states, one Muslim and the other Hindu. The Viceroy is to have a series of talks with Lord Listowel, the Secretary for India. |
| 2/18/1974 | Daniel Moynihan, US ambassador to India, presents $2,046,700,000 cheque. |
| 4/15/1980 | Six more private sector banks nationalized. |
| 6/30/1997 | Gujarat floods claimed 170 lives. |
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