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Historical Event on 5/11/1999

Centre removes the West Bengal Governor A. R. Kidwai. The Arunachal Pradesh Governor Mata Prasad had also been asked to step down.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/24/1919Gandhiji presides over All-India Khilafat conference at Delhi.
11/24/1992Milan Kumar Banerjee appointed Attorney General.
12/15/1976Daily newspaper ""Lokmat"" published it's first Jalgaon edit
3/21/1997Jockey Vasant Shinde retires.
2/20/1982The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members of Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was finally shifted to College of Materials Management Jabalpur. The original memorial was erected on 15 Apr 1946 from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.
10/28/1977Shantiprasad Jain, industrialist, died.
9/19/1991Lok Sabha passes unanimously the Places of Worship Special Provisions Bill for maintaining the status quo of religious places as on 1947.
2/13/1970Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48 people at a village 80-km from New Delhi.
9/4/1987Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old girl, commits Sati (burning herself in her husband's funeral pyre) in Deorala in Rajasthan.
9/20/1998A. B. Bardhan is re-elected CPI general secretary.