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Historical Event on 5/22/1996
United Front prime ministerial candidate H.D. Deve Gowda unanimously elected leader of the Front's parliamentary party.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/12/1992 | Government asks CBI to probe the demolition of the masjid in Ayodhya. |
| 1/7/1831 | Heinrich Von Stephan, famous general of postal union and freedom fighter, was born at Pomerania. |
| 12/23/1919 | King's proclamation was made that the new reforms of Government of India offer some sort of self government. |
| 7/23/1996 | India's admission to Asian Regional Forum was endorsed by Foreign Ministers of the group at Jakarta. |
| 1/3/1836 | Munshi Newal Kishore, son of Jamuna Prasad Bhargava--a zamindar of Aligarh-- and a great erudite scholar, educationist, nationalist, social worker and a pioneer industrialist, was born. He was the founder of Navalkishore Press, Lucknow (1858), which published 2612 books that elaborated Hindi literature. He was the Publisher of Awadhi Newspaper in Asia. |
| 5/19/1969 | Cyclone hit Andhra Pradesh claiming 608 lives and rendering 20,000 homeless. |
| 3/16/2000 | Rabri Devi, Bihar Chief Minister, wins trust vote. |
| 4/15/1956 | A combined army and police action against well armed Naga rebels. |
| 3/22/1991 | President withholds assent to the pension bill of Members of Parliament. |
| 12/6/1997 | Nine persons killed and over 60 injured in bomb blasts in three trains which left Chennai. Blasts occurred in Tiruchi, Erode (Tamil Nadu) and Trissur in Kerala. |
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