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Historical Event on 5/31/1988

Dwarika Prasad Mishra, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/18/1879Branch of 'Theosophical Panth' established in India.
6/1/1964Nava Paisa, established in 1947, was renamed as 'Paisa'.
6/23/1980Sanjay Gandhi, great Indian politician and younger son of Indira Gandhi, died in a plane crash. He was recently appointed as the General Secretary of the AICC (I).
2/13/1856East India Company captured Lucknow along with Avadh Kingdom.
3/4/1961First Indian aircraft carrier naval fighter vessel ''I.N.S. Vikrant'' was commissioned in Belfast.
10/13/1905Sister Nivedita died.
3/17/1991The first Indian Remote Sensing Satellite IRS-IA completes three years of successful operation. (18-3-91).
5/27/1910Robert Koch, famous French scientist, passed away.
5/8/1997Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion.
11/24/1992Lok Sabha approves bill seeking to confer Indian citizenship to a child born to an Indian mother outside the country.