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Historical Event on 5/31/1996
J. H. Patel sworn in Karnataka CM.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/1/1924 | Krishna Mohan Jha, famous educationist, was born at Pokharia near Katihar (Purnea). |
| 7/29/1987 | India and Sri Lanka sign peace accord at Colombo in a bid to end the 5-year old ethnic trouble. This stance taken thereafter by the LTTE added several dimensions to the scenario. It was a multi-purpose role that the Navy has been required to play. |
| 3/1/2000 | Gopichand wins the Indian Oil Servo National badminton championship at Kochi-making it four in a row. |
| 10/6/1992 | Z. R. Ansari, former central minister, died. |
| 9/21/1933 | Annie Besant, great social worker and founder of Home Rule Movement, passed away. |
| 12/27/1998 | Churches and missionary schools come under attack and many were injured in a fresh outbreak of communal violence in Surat and Dangs district of Gujarat even as the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad announce the stepping up of their stir against the alleged conversion of Hindus. |
| 12/11/1986 | The United Nations Children's fund (UNICEF) completes 40 years of work on behalf of children (11-12-86). |
| 2/4/1974 | Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924. |
| 11/1/1992 | Indirabai Khadilkar, famous singer, died. |
| 1/26/1927 | Laxman Madhav Katre, former Indian Air Chief Marshall, was born. |
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