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Historical Event on 5/31/1921

Suresh Hariprasad Joshi, modern Gujarati poet, story writer and critic, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/22/1999CPI (M) is against India signing the CTBT.
4/1/1902Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, cricketer, (one Test, India v England 1934, scored 19 & 0), was born in Bombay.
8/5/1981Jagjivan Ram heads breakaway Congress(U) and calls new party Congress (J).
3/1/1960National Aeronautical Research Laboratory moves to Bangalore with offices at Palace Road and Jayamahal Road. It soon becomes National Aeronautical Laboratory. Dr Nilakantan invites Dr D M Rao to lead the 4 ft tunnel project.
9/20/1940Saroj Lalwani, journalist and printing press director, was born.
1/31/1983The first floating Dry Dock was launched at Howrah.
1/1/1874The first women magazine ""Bola Bodhini"" was published.
4/26/1926Karachi Autonomous Region established in RSFSR (until 1943).
5/19/1904Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, passed away at Nauheim, Hesse-Nassau, France. He commenced cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world.
5/13/1956Acharya Vinoba Bhave started the Bhoodan campaign in Tiruvellore.