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Historical Event on 5/31/1995
Statute Bill, a constitutional amendment bill, introduced in Lok Sabha to extend reservation in jobs and in promotion for SCs and STs.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/22/1956 | Quake shatters town of Anjar; claiming 117 lives, 800 people were missing. |
| 3/31/1999 | The PIO card, conferring privileges on persons of Indian origin settled abroad, is formally launched. |
| 4/27/1996 | General Election (11th) of India begins. |
| 4/8/1923 | Plague in India killed 1,000 in past week. |
| 7/5/1984 | Indian Airlines airbus hijacked, lands in Lahore. |
| 12/12/1971 | The first aerial victory was when MiG-21FLs of No. 47 Squadron shot down a PAF F-104 over the Gulf of Kutch and this was followed by three more victories in quick succession on 17 December, when MiG-21FLs of No. 29 Squadron escorting HF-24 Maruts, shot down intercepting F-104s near Uttarlai in the Rajasthan desert in gun-missile encounters, while a third F-104, on an intruding mission, was shot down by another MiG 21FL of No.29 Squadron. |
| 9/3/1999 | Brigadier V. K. Chopra is appointed as the new head of the 121 (1) infantry brigade in Kargil. |
| 12/6/1993 | Samrendra Kundu, former foreign state minister and socialist of Orrisa, passed away. |
| 1/26/1950 | India is proclaimed a Sovereign Democratic Republic ceasing to be a British dominion and adopted Indian Constitution which came into force. |
| 3/19/1939 | Abbas Ali Baig, cricketer (Indian bat 112 on debut v England 1959), was born in Hyderabad. |
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