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Historical Event on 5/24/1991
The body of Rajiv Gandhi, India's assassinated former premier and son of the late Indira Gandhi, was cremated in New Delhi today. He was killed by a suicide bomber in the southern state of Tamil Nadu three days ago. Police suspect that Tamil rebels, fighting for independence in Sri Lanka, carried out the murder. Gandhi's death signaled the end of the Nehru dynasty's rule over India. His two children were too young to assume the leadership of this turbulent nation. There was pressure for Sonia Gandhi to succeed her husband, but she was Italian-born and refused.
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| 3/27/1996 | President and Governors of respective states issue notifications for elections to the 11th Lok Sabha and 6 State Assemblies. |
| 4/1/2000 | India wins four golds in the under-14 Youth chess championship in Teheran. |
| 6/1/1996 | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, former President of India, passed away. |
| 7/4/1922 | Ghulam Ahmed, cricketer (off-spinner in 22 Tests for India in 1950's), was born in Hyderabad. |
| 10/3/1997 | Devi Lal floats a new party 'Haryana Lok Dal'. |
| 1/10/1818 | The last battle was fought in Rampura between the Marathas and the company. |
| 5/25/1894 | Biharilal Chakravorty, bengali poet, passed away. |
| 4/11/1906 | K.V. Jagannathan, great Hindi writer and journalist, was born at Krishnarayapuram,Tamil Nadu. |
| 12/11/1780 | Goddard General, Bassein fort was captured near Bombay. |
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