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Historical Event on 5/31/1998
India rejects mediation on issues with Pakistan, reiterates its commitment to address outstanding issues bilaterally.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/2/1982 | Geet Sethi becomes the youngest Indian to win the National Billiards' crown at Madras. |
| 3/3/1948 | B. S. Munje, founder of Bhosla Military School, passed away. |
| 12/23/1900 | Charansingh Chaudhary, former Prime Minister of India and a farmer's leader, was born. |
| 6/10/1957 | Bhai Vir Singh, great Punjabi poet, novelist, social reformer, musician, humanitarian and Padma Bhushan awardee, died. |
| 1/27/1931 | Mahatma Gandhi was released from jail, ending eight months of imprisonment for his campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. To avoid demonstrations, Gandhi was released late in the evening from the Yerovda jail and put on a night train to Bombay. There was hope in British circles that the release of Gandhi would end the strife and lead to discussions of dominion status. Gandhi made clear, however, that he would persist in his civil disobedience campaign. |
| 8/22/1919 | Girijakumar Mathur, famous modern Hindi poet, was born. |
| 2/13/1713 | Farrukh Siyar becomes Emperor of India after capturing Red Fort. |
| 3/18/1974 | Buddhadev Basu, modern Bengali poet, story writer, playwright and critic, passed away. |
| 5/8/1997 | Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion. |
| 11/20/1888 | Gurunath Bewoor, director general, was born at Bewoor village, district Bijapur. |
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