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Historical Event on 5/31/1998
India rejects mediation on issues with Pakistan, reiterates its commitment to address outstanding issues bilaterally.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/11/1901 | Pramathanath Bishi, professor and Hindi writer, was born. |
| 11/9/1980 | P. C. Joshi, former General Secretary of Indian Communist Party, passed away. |
| 11/10/1990 | Two Burmese youth hijack a Thai Airlines Airbus with 221 passengers on board to Calcutta. |
| 3/5/1989 | Bhagwat Jha Azad, Bihar CM, resigns. |
| 5/27/1906 | Gandhiji writes to his brother Lakshimidas, stating his disinterestedness in worldly possessions. |
| 5/27/1906 | Akbar captured Ahmednagar. |
| 10/13/1911 | Ashok Kumar Ganguly, famous film actor, was born. He is the recipient of Dada Saheb Phalke Award. |
| 8/4/2000 | Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and the last member of the British royal family to bear the title ''Empress of India'', celebrated her 100th birthday. |
| 1/4/1932 | Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants. |
| 11/5/1956 | Nehru breaks silence condemning Soviets for repression in Hungary. |
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