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Historical Event on 5/28/1996
13-day-old BJP-led minority coalition govt. headed by A.B. Vajpayee quits at the end of a two-day debate on a motion of confidence.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/31/1961 | 99 Infantry Brigade Group, under Brigadier K S Raja, launched operations in Katanga province and regained full control of Katanga amidst stiff resistance offered by a break away faction (Katangese gendarmerie). |
| 9/8/1972 | Vijay Singh Chauhan sets record for decathlon by 7378/7306 points at Munich. |
| 12/29/1965 | First Indian-made tank 'Vijayanta' rolled off the Avadi Heavy Vehicles factory. |
| 1/19/1997 | Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad arrives in India on a 4-day visit. |
| 6/18/1887 | Dr. Anugrah Narain Singh, freedom fighter, educationist, leader and Minister of India, was born in Poiyavan village, Gaya district, Bihar. |
| 5/18/1974 | Jayaprakash Narayan led a procession against economic conditions in Patna. There was lathi charged and he issued a call for total revolution. He also started the 'Citizens for Democracy' movement. |
| 9/29/1942 | The British police shot Matangini Hazra, a 72-year old woman of Tamluk town in Midnapur district, when she was leading the flag at Tamluk in August movement procession. |
| 6/15/1659 | Aurangzeb declared as the Emperor at Delhi. |
| 9/11/1987 | Mahadevi Verma, Gyanpith award winner and one of the greatest luminaries of modern Hindi literature, passed away. |
| 9/5/1612 | East India Company's Navy eastablished. |
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