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Historical Event on 5/11/1999
Centre removes the West Bengal Governor A. R. Kidwai. The Arunachal Pradesh Governor Mata Prasad had also been asked to step down.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/18/1995 | Kaka Hathrasi, famous comedy poet, died. |
| 5/30/1919 | Rabindranath Tagore returned back the honour as a protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. |
| 5/22/1917 | Suniti Chaudhary, revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Kumilla. She was one of the accused in the famous Chargaon ammunition plot and assassination of General Lemen, Inspector General of Dhaka. |
| 4/7/1997 | Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Bhutan finalise preparations for a new trade bloc called 'Growth Quadrangle'. |
| 3/19/1935 | British fire on 20,000 Muslims, killing 23. |
| 1/30/1903 | Lord Curzon opened the Imperial Library in in Metcalfe Hall at Calcutta. |
| 12/25/1846 | Swati Tirunal Ramavarma passed away. |
| 9/25/1954 | 14 Members of Parliament (MP) form a new party called the Union of Socialist Progress. Acharya Kripalani is the leader. |
| 10/5/1997 | Kiran Bedi, India's first woman police officer, was awarded the Joseph Beuys prize for her work in reforming the largest prison of the country. |
| 7/22/1918 | During the First World War, India's first fighter pilot Indra Lal Rai's plane was shot down in battle by Germans planes near London. Rai had fought for Britisher's Force. |
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