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Historical Event on 5/16/1999

Senior Congress leaders oppose Sonia Gandhi as Prime Minister.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/10/1908Gandhiji adopts word, ""Satyagraha"" in place of ""Passive Resistance"". Sentenced to two months' imprisonment for failure to leave Transvaal.
2/1/1986Pope John Paul II arrives in New Delhi for a 10-day visit.
11/7/1971India admits forces entered Bangladesh to silence artillery.
7/1/1927Chandrashekhar, former Prime Minister of India, was born.
3/24/1944Manmohan Singh, famous economist and Finance Minister of India, was born.
7/1/1961Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian women astronaut (STS 87), was born in Karnal.
2/11/1997NHRC recommends to Central Government measures to prevent government servants from employing children below 14 as domestic servants.
5/28/1963Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India).
1/31/2000All seven accused in the Jain hawala case discharged.
6/1/1959The Chinese occupy Tibet and Dalai Lama flees to India.