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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 |
| 5/18/1985 | Dr. P. C. Alexander appointed High Commissioner in Britain. |
| 1/2/1979 | Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (vs West Indies). |
| 10/24/1605 | Jahangir became the fourth Emperor of Mughal Empire at Agra. |
| 1/9/1972 | In 1971, 433 feature films produced in the world with a record and a top position in film production. |
| 5/19/1975 | Farm truck packed with wedding party run over by a train, killing 66 in truck, at 40 miles south of Pune. |
| 11/5/1915 | Balasaheb Devras, sar sanghchalak of RSS, was born. |
| 12/10/1905 | Robert Koch received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on Tuberculosis. |
| 11/5/1870 | Chittaranjan Das, freedom fighter, famous lawyer and orator, was born at Calcutta. |
| 10/28/1984 | Federal agents early this morning caught Guru Shree Rajneesh trying to flee the country. Rajneesh was charged with violating immigration laws and arranging phoney marriages for his cult members. The religious leader was nabbed at Charlotte, North Carolina airport when his jet, bound for Bermuda, touched down for re-fueling. The Bhagwan ran a commune of about 1,500 people in Oregon. Thousands more cult members live in Rajneesh's native land India and other countries. He knew the federal government had no faith in him after his chief adviser, a woman named Ma Anand Sheela, was arrested in West Germany for several minor offenses. Rajneesh appeared in court on this date clad in a lavender robe. |
| 1/16/1997 | Dr. Datta Samant, Trade Union leader, shot dead in Mumbai. |
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