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Historical Event on 5/11/1970

A bill for setting up of ""North Eastern Council"" passed.

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3/9/1974Guru Amudan Sharma, famous Manipuri dance master, passed away.
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2/14/1932Madhubala (Mumtaj Begam), film actress, was born.
11/10/1991South Africa's first cricket One-day international since 1970 vs India.
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10/27/1998L. P. Singh, ICS, former Governor of five north eastern states, died in New Delhi. He was 86.
10/28/1977Shantiprasad Jain, industrialist, died.
8/30/1979Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'.
3/22/1938IRFA was registered as a local body not administered by the Government on March 22, 1938 under the Government of India Act No. XXI of 1860.
7/23/1997India decides to sign U.N. Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.