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Historical Event on 5/24/1990
Surjit Singh Barnala sworn in as Governor of Tamil Nadu.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/18/1823 | Gopal Hari Deshmukh, lokhitwadi, was born. |
| 1/22/1992 | Government raises Suzuki share in Maruti to 50 per cent making it the first public sector company to go private. |
| 2/14/1925 | Mohan Dhariya, politician and nature lover, was born. |
| 5/2/1977 | C.V. Narasimhan became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 25/11/77). |
| 1/11/1991 | Five JD ministers at the Centre disqualified by Speaker Rabi Ray on the basis of anti-defection law.Five disqualified ministers who tendered their resignation were asked to continue in office by the PM. |
| 1/23/1976 | Gautam Buddha's lost city of Kapilavastu was found in an excavation. |
| 1/4/1932 | Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants. |
| 7/24/1991 | Union budget imposes all-round price hike. |
| 1/8/1993 | FERA restrictions removed, resident Indians allowed to keep as much as $500. |
| 8/25/1963 | Allama Mashriqi, Muslim leader, passed away. |
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