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Historical Event on 5/11/1999
Supreme Court confirms the death sentence on four of the 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, reduces to life imprisonment the sentence on three others and acquits the remaining 19.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/31/1896 | Dattatray Ramchandra Bendre, Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Award winner and Kannad poet, was born. |
| 1/31/1896 | Husain Quli, the new Governor of Bengal, defeated the rebels and put them to fight. Daud was captured and put to death. |
| 3/11/1975 | Battle between Marathas and Nizam at Kharda. |
| 4/23/1959 | Peking Radio reports say that Chinese troops defeated rebels in south-eastern Tibet and have closed Tibet's borders with India and Burma. |
| 8/10/1988 | Ramakrishna Hegde resigns as CM of Karnataka on moral grounds in connection with phone tapping issue. |
| 11/27/1920 | Kanhaiyalal Bhagwandas Harjal, educationist, was born at Mohpa, Maharashtra. |
| 11/22/1993 | Gulshen Ahmed, Himachal Governor, resigns in the wake of an official report that he canvassed for his son in Satna. |
| 1/27/1996 | 'Prithvi', surface-to-surface missile, test-fired successfully. |
| 10/14/1910 | Further unrest took place in Lhasa, Tibet, following the arrest of Dalai Lama's agent by the Chinese on the Chinese frontier with India. |
| 1/20/2000 | J&K accepts the report of the State Autonomy committee tabled in the Assembly last year. |
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