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Historical Event on 5/31/1973
Mohan Kumaramangalam, Central Minister, died in an air crash near Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/29/1977 | India and Bangladesh signed settlement for distributing Ganga river water. |
| 2/11/1997 | A New Delhi district consumer court holds that provision of drinking water aboard trains is a necessity and it is the duty of the railways to provide it to passengers in reserved compartments. |
| 8/17/1911 | Y.R. Lokurkar, senior journalist, was born. |
| 10/17/1996 | President's rule reimposed in U.P. |
| 8/23/1872 | Tanguturi Prakasam, great lawyer, journalist, nationalist, politician, leader, social reformer and former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, was born at Kanuparthi village in Ongole district in Andhra Pradesh. |
| 5/1/1998 | The Konkan Railway running for 760-km is dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This was an extention from Ratnagiri. |
| 9/29/1971 | Cyclone & tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000 people. |
| 9/4/1929 | N. Hanumantha Rao, cricket test umpire for 9 tests from 1978-84, was born in Karnataka. |
| 12/26/1801 | Supreme Courts had Bengal and Madras by the charter. |
| 10/24/1851 | First official telegraph line was opened between Calcutta and Daimond Harbour spanning 33.8 km. |
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