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Historical Event on 5/31/1970

Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to.

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8/20/1917Raja Kulkarni, freedom fighter and politician, was born at Mhaswa village in Maharashra.
1/1/1948India raised voice against Pakistani infilatration in the country. A complaint was lodged in the Security Council of United Nation on Kashmir invasion.
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9/15/1992Price of petrol, diesel and cooking gas hiked.
12/4/1924Gateway of India was inagurated by Lord Riding.
3/22/2000India's first third generation satellite 'Insat-3B' put in orbit by Europe's latest Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou in French Guyana.
1/4/1924Vidyadhar Gokhle, editor, playwright and politician, was born.
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