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Historical Event on 5/31/1994
Pandit Samtaprasad, famous Tabla player, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/16/1992 | Reservation, Supreme Court rejects economic criteria. |
| 4/12/1976 | India set 403 to win against the West Indies. |
| 5/4/1832 | Darpan', a fortnightly magazine started publishing as a weekly. |
| 3/3/1996 | Haryana govt. bans liquor vends and bars in rural areas. |
| 5/3/1971 | Dhanjay Ramchandra Gadgil, famous economist, passed away. |
| 5/25/1941 | 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India. |
| 4/10/1982 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1A) launched. First operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite procured from U.S.A.(Cape Canaveral). |
| 6/3/1947 | British Government issued the partition plan, which was worked out by Lord Louis Mountbatten in New Delhi and was accepted by both Muslim League and Congress. The salient features of the partition were, 1) Provices of Bengal and Punjab to be divided., 2) The Indians will form the constitution of India and it will only be applicable in the areas where people accept it., 3) The province of Baluchistan shall adopt proper ways to decide its future., 4) 562 Princely States shall be free to decide their own future., 5) Referendum shall be held in N.W.F.P. and Assam., 6) The Governor General of both countries shall be the executive head of their respective countries., 7) Military assets shall be divided between the two countries and 8) Red Cliff Mission was setup, to demarcate the boundaries of the two countries. India would become free on 15th August 1947. |
| 3/19/1982 | Acharya J. B. Kripalani, writer, nationalist, parliamentarian, founder of Kissan Mazdoor Dal and president of Indian National Congress in 1946, passed away at the age of 94. |
| 2/1/1901 | Six language penel were started on the Rs. five dinomination. These notes were single sided and the back side could be used for accounting purposes. The six languages were Urdu, Bengali, Telugu, Kaithi, Kannada and Tamil. The paper used for printing was white hand made and moulded. |
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