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Historical Event on 5/24/1991
The body of Rajiv Gandhi, India's assassinated former premier and son of the late Indira Gandhi, was cremated in New Delhi today. He was killed by a suicide bomber in the southern state of Tamil Nadu three days ago. Police suspect that Tamil rebels, fighting for independence in Sri Lanka, carried out the murder. Gandhi's death signaled the end of the Nehru dynasty's rule over India. His two children were too young to assume the leadership of this turbulent nation. There was pressure for Sonia Gandhi to succeed her husband, but she was Italian-born and refused.

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5/24/1991	Chaitanya Maha Prabhu, vaishnav Sant, passed away. His mortal remains at Puri.(9/7or 29/6).
4/3/1700	Sikandar, former sultan of Vijapur, passed away at Satara in the imprisonment of Mughals.
5/21/1966	General Election (11th) of India ends.
2/18/1941	There was a minor revolt in Royal Indian Navy which in now known as Indian Navy.
10/28/1981	Underground Metro Train Compartments were tested on trial basis at Calcutta.
10/9/1945	British troops occupy Andaman in Gulf of Bengal.
2/14/1970	Supreme Court holds nationalization of banks illegal. Presidential ordinance revalidates nationalization.
2/12/1985	Fire aboard M.V. Chidambaram, an Indian liner sailing from Singapore to Madras, killed 34 people.
1/12/2000	T. S. Krishna Murthy is appointed Election Commissioner in place of G.V.G. Krishnamoorthy who retired.
3/5/1961	Sachin Sengupta, famous writer, dramatist and journalist, passed away.

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