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Historical Event on 5/28/1996
BJP Govt. incapable of assembling a majority after two weeks. A left-wing coalition takes over headed by new prime minister H. D. Deve Gowda, Janata Dal leader and United Front coalition government. He held this office till 12 April 1997.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/4/1960 | Washington, Ike signs wheat pact with India for largest U.S. food sale. |
| 1/23/1814 | Sir Alexander Canningham, Indian Archeologist, was born. |
| 9/30/1996 | PVN Rao, who was to appear in court in the Pathak cheating case, gets a reprieve |
| 9/6/1972 | Allauddin Khan, famous Sarod player, passed away. |
| 10/14/1919 | Raghu Karmkar, famous cinephotographer, was born. |
| 4/28/1993 | Troops storm police complex in Srinagar and free officials from the rebelling 2000 policemen. |
| 2/24/1995 | Rishang Keishing (Cong-I) sworn in as the 15th CM of Manipur. |
| 2/14/1929 | Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. |
| 2/17/1907 | Henry Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society-Madras), passed away. |
| 1/22/1990 | FIR registered in Bofors kickbacks case. |
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