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Historical Event on 5/20/1999

The CWC expels Sharad Pawar, M. P. A. Sangma and Tariq Anwar for six years from the primary membership of the party.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/14/1989'Poorna Kumbh', India's largest religious gathering held once in 12 years, begins at Allahabad.
1/15/1965Food Corporation of India inaugurated in Madras.
4/19/1996AIDS deleted from the list of contagious diseases in the Railway Act of 1989.
11/21/1947First Stamp of Independent India was released
5/20/1965Under the leadership of Commander M. S. Kohli, Indian Trackers concurred Mount Everest. Captain A. S. Chima and Sherpa Nawang Gombu were the first to reach the summit.
11/13/1909Gandhiji left England for South Africa and wrote ''Hind Swaraj'' on board S.S. Kildonan Castle.
6/24/1986Government announced that unmarried mothers under its employment would also get maternity leave.
11/8/2000Queen Ingrid (90), Denmark's Swedish born queen mother and great-grand daughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, died in Copenhagen.
4/5/1848Satara kingdom came to end.
5/2/1992President J.B.Patnaik, former Orissa CM and PCC (I), arrested on corruption charges.