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Historical Event on 5/31/1970
Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to.
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| 9/4/1895 | Siyaramsharan Gupt was born. |
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| 9/4/1888 | Mahatma Gandhi left for London, England to study Law. |
| 1/1/1664 | Shivaji assumes royal title. |
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| 11/9/1909 | The Times reports failure of Gandhi Government negotiations on Transvaal laws. |
| 8/19/1903 | Gangadhar Devram Khanolkar, biographer and critic, was born. |
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