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Historical Event on 1/29/1948
Angry refugees ask Gandhiji to retire to the Himalayas.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/22/1872 | Meera Behn (Medlin Slade), freedom fighter, was born at England. |
| 4/23/1928 | Narasimha Murtey, educationist, was born at Nandur, A.P. |
| 5/20/1991 | A. S. L. V. was launched. |
| 11/3/1999 | Harkishan Singh Surjeet donates property share to his party CPI(M). |
| 2/8/1993 | India and Spain sign four agreements as the Spanish PM, Felipe Gonzalez, began a two-day visit to New Delhi. |
| 5/6/1971 | India refutes allegations that it has meddled in Pakistan's civil war. |
| 6/8/1968 | Madhuri Mani Iyyer, famous singer of Karnatak Gharana, passed away. |
| 11/9/1999 | Prof. Romila Thapar, historian, is elected to the highest British academic honour. |
| 12/9/1977 | Ravishankar Mahashankar Rawal, famous painter, passed away. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
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