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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 |
| 12/9/1658 | Dutch troops occupy harbour city Quilon (Coilan), India. |
| 4/13/1851 | Ganga Ram, great social reformer and an assistant engineer in the Public Works Department, Punjab, was born at Mangtanwala, now in Pakistan. |
| 11/30/1986 | Sikhs hijack bus, killing 24 at Punjab. |
| 2/4/1994 | India elected to the executive boards of UNDP, UN Population Fund and UNICEF. |
| 8/18/1990 | Pandit Narayan Chaturvedi, senior Hindi litterateur, died. |
| 11/6/1937 | Yashwant BipinBihari Sinha was born in Patna (Bihar). |
| 11/11/1872 | Abdul Karim Khan, famous singer of ""Kirana Gharana"", was b |
| 12/3/1971 | Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief. |
| 9/29/1914 | German cruiser Emden shells Madras. |
| 4/23/1994 | Ibrahim Sulaiman Sait, former Indian Union Muslim League president, floats a new party - the Indian National League. |
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