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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
7/28/1989Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was disqualified from Rajya Sabha. It was the first case of such disqualification from the House under anti-defection law.
10/27/1982Gandhiji's personal secretary Pyare Lal died.
6/18/1978The Karakoram Highway, linking Gilgit in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir with Sinkiang in China, is opened.
3/1/1950The population figure for India is announced as 347,340,000.
8/16/1980Communal riots continue; death toll in Uttar Pradesh City hits 130.
12/21/1881Pundit Sunder Lal Sharma, freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Rajim, M.P.
10/26/194627 die as violence between Hindus and Muslims continued in Calcutta.
1/29/1979Tamil Nadu Expess, India's first Jumbo passenger train, was flagged off from New Delhi Railway Station for Madras.
10/15/1932First Indian commercial airliner service 'Tata Sons Ltd' started. (Tata Airlines)
2/27/1987UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar recieved the Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding.