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Historical Event on 5/21/1996
General Election (11th) of India ended.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/12/1993 | National Environment Council with PM as chairperson set up. |
| 8/11/1984 | A cloud of toxic chemicals escaped from a Union Carbide plant near Charleston, West Virginia, this morning, and at least 135 residents were treated for eye, throat, and lung irritation. Last December, methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a Union Carbide plant in India, killing 2,000 people. No MIC escaped today, plant officials said. Aldicarb oxime, a much less toxic gas, is declared as one constituent of the gas cloud. |
| 9/30/1999 | Hindi writer Prof. Prem Shankar and Tamil scholar Ashokamitran selected for K.K. Birla Foundation Fellowships in comparative Indian literature. |
| 10/1/1847 | Annie Besant, famous philosopher and thesophist, was born in London. |
| 4/19/1998 | Kottayam in Kerala becomes the first district in India to complete computerisation of the talluk offices connecting them with the district headquarters. |
| 6/4/1941 | National Seva Dal was established. |
| 8/11/1893 | First Hindu-Muslim riots in Maharashtra. |
| 1/5/1890 | Ganendra Mohan Tagore died. |
| 2/23/1997 | 176 people dead and 500 injured in a major fire at a religious congregation in Baripada, Orissa. |
| 6/1/1996 | H.D. Deve Gowda's 21-member Central cabinet sworn in. |
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