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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 |
| 10/5/1932 | Madhavrao Laxmanrao Apte, cricketer (7 Tests for India, 1 century), was born in Bombay. |
| 10/27/1605 | Akbar (Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din), Mughal emperor of India (1556-1605), passed away of diarrhea or dysentery at the age of 63 years. After his death his body was buried at a mausoleum in Sikandra, Agra. |
| 6/16/1950 | Mithun Chakravorty, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
| 4/17/1996 | Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains. |
| 4/18/1914 | Cottari Subbanna Nayudu, cricketer (brother of C K, 11 Tests as leggie), was born in Nagpur. |
| 9/20/1857 | British troops conquered Delhi from the Mutineers. |
| 3/18/1915 | British Government approved Indian Security Act to have greater control on the Indian people. |
| 1/10/1996 | All in all, it has been a long story of nearly nine decades, with the early shaky screen images turning into a multi-pronged and multi-winged empire of its own, that has yielded about 27,000 feature films and thousands of documented short films. |
| 1/15/1993 | PM asks for judicial probe into Bombay riots, sanctions Rs. 1 crore aid for victims. |
| 6/3/1844 | Balkrishna Bhatt, essay writer, critic and journalist in Hindi, was born. |
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