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Historical Event on 5/19/1990
S. R. Bommai unanimously elected President of JD.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/29/1947 | A conference of the Governor General and the two PMs of India and Pakistan with their military commanders to stop communal riots in the Punjab. |
| 7/29/1996 | Aruna Asaf Ali, freedom fighter and player of important role in Quit India Movement, passed away in New Delhi. She was awarded with Bharat Ratna. |
| 4/27/1997 | CBI decides to prosecute Bihar CM Laloo Prasad Yadav, former CM Dr. Jagannath Mishra, Union Minister Chandra Deo Prasad Verma and 53 others in the Rs. 950 crore fodder scam case. |
| 8/22/1980 | Kishor Shahu, actor and director, died. |
| 2/23/1993 | Jnanpith Award was given to Sitakant Mahapatra (Oriya). |
| 8/10/1992 | P. P. Thorat, retired Lt and General, died. |
| 11/15/1992 | 37 die in a landslide at Meghamalai near Chinnamanur. |
| 5/31/1970 | Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to. |
| 6/16/1893 | Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar, social worker and industrialist, was born at Athikkadu Thekkur in Tamil Nadu. |
| 8/27/1997 | Daljeet Singh and Debi Bose set national records in the Federation Cup athletics at Chennai in javelin throw and hurdles respectively. |
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