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Historical Event on 5/31/1947
Gandhiji declares that peace must precede partition, and he would not be party to India's vivisection.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/16/2000 | Rest of India wins the Irani Trophy cricket tournament. Murali Karthik scalps nine for 70, the best figures by a bowler in 38 Irani cup matches. |
| 6/14/1985 | M.C. Sharma was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 10-12-1985. |
| 9/8/1952 | The Copyright bill was signed during the first world convention by 35 nations including India at Geneva. |
| 12/31/1988 | Treaty signed between India and Pakistan for not to target nuclear sites of each other. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 3/11/1993 | Gen. K.V. Krishna Rao returns to Jammu & Kashmir as Governor. |
| 4/13/1997 | Paes-Bhupathi corner doubles glory in the Gold Flake Open tennis in Chennai. |
| 9/29/1914 | Japanese vessel 'Kamagata Maru' reached Baj Baj near Calcutta from Vancouver carrying Indian revolutionaries. |
| 9/9/1898 | Explosive Department of India was established at Nagpur. This is presently under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India. |
| 10/14/1991 | Prasannakumar Abhyankar, senior journalist, died. |
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