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Historical Event on 5/23/1998
L. K. Advani, Home Minister, is to look after J&K affairs.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/28/1996 | Dev Kanta Baruah, first President of former Congress, passed away at New Delhi at the age of 82. |
| 4/1/1989 | UN Peace-keeping Force arrives in Windhoek to prefare for independence of Namibia. |
| 2/26/1996 | Parliament's budget session opens. |
| 5/12/1937 | George VI is crowned. |
| 3/20/1993 | Memon brothers, the prime suspects in the Bombay bomb blasts, escape from Dubai. |
| 4/21/1997 | Inder Kumar Gujaral sworn as the 12th Prime Minister of India, along with old council of ministers in the H. D. Deve Gowda govt. minus Tamil Maanila Congress Minister and D. P. Yadav of Janata Dal. |
| 1/26/1997 | Government prohibits manual scavenging and construction of dry latrines in six states (AP, Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tripura, West Bengal) and all UTs. |
| 6/19/1996 | Kerala LDF govt. decides to reopen the ISRO espionage case, which was closed by the CBI. |
| 11/22/1989 | Rajindernath, great Indian wicketkeeper 1 Test and 0 runs 0 ct, 4 stp, passed away. |
| 9/8/1965 | Pakistan commenced its drive into the Indian Punjab using its 1-armoured division with the aim to foreclose India's options north of the Beas-Sutlej river line, after foiling the southern most divisional attack mounted by 4-Mountain Division. |
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