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Historical Event on 5/31/1947

Gandhiji declares that peace must precede partition, and he would not be party to India's vivisection.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/19/1927Uttar Pradesh was formed by an Automobile Association.
9/8/1972Vijay Singh Chauhan sets record for decathlon by 7378/7306 points at Munich.
3/3/1997Indian Socialist Party headed by Arangil Sridharan merges with Lok Sakthi. It was floated by Ramakrishna Hedge.
2/15/1869Mirza ""Galib"" Asad Ullah Beg Khan, famous Urdu poet and writer, passed away.
10/6/1999The DMK front is set to win a majority of LS seats in Tamil Nadu.
6/1/1874East India Company was dissolved.
10/26/1943Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta.
1/12/1966Shiri Narhar Vishnu Gadgil (Kakasaheb), great freedom fighter, nationalist leader, social reformer, lawyer, prolific writer and politician, passed away.
8/22/1877Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great painter, philosopher, linguist, critic, art researcher in the East, was born at Colombo in Sri Lanka.
10/1/1997Ordinance promulgated to ban single digit or instant lotteries.