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Historical Event on 5/19/1991
About 20 crore voters go to the polls in the first phase of election in 204 constituencies of the 10th Lok Sabha.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/17/1903 | Jyotiprasad Agarwal, Assamia playwright, poet and music director, was born. |
| 2/10/1990 | Saroj Mukherjee, WB's CPI(M) secretary, died. |
| 12/19/1952 | Nehru announces the Government's decision for establishing an Andhra State, constituting Telugu speaking areas of the State of Madras, excluding the city. |
| 10/20/1962 | China mounted a massive attacked in N.E.E.F.A. and Ladakh borders. Chinese army pushed Indians back. The real test of IAF airlift capability came when open warfare erupted on the Sino-lndian border, while operating to the tricky helipads in the mountains, including the operation of C-119Gs from airstrips 17,000 ft (5180m) above sea level in the Karakoram Himalayas, and the air-lifting by An-12Bs of two troops of AMX-13 light tanks to Chushul in Ladakh, where the small airstrip was 15,000 ft (4570m) above sea level. |
| 8/8/1967 | Central government, for the first time since independence, suffered a token defeat in the Lok Sabha. |
| 11/20/1946 | Gandhiji starts tour without party. |
| 3/11/1997 | Sadhana Mukherjee, a sex-worker from Calcutta, represents India at the first international conference on prostitution beginning in Los Angeles. |
| 6/29/1993 | 24 jawans were killed in ambush by NSCN militants in Manipur. |
| 6/5/1974 | Smallpox epidemic in the country. |
| 6/5/1974 | Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal arrived at Cochin as Viceroy of India. |
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