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Historical Event on 5/11/1999
Supreme Court confirms the death sentence on four of the 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, reduces to life imprisonment the sentence on three others and acquits the remaining 19.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/14/1854 | Mahendranath Gupt, follower of Ramkrishna Paramahans, was born. |
| 10/24/2000 | Delhi High Court admitted the appeal of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao against the lower court judgement in the JMM MPs' bribery case. |
| 2/3/1986 | Pope John Paul II meets Mother Teresa at Calcutta. |
| 7/1/1962 | Purushottamdas Tandon, great leader and editor, died at Allahabad. |
| 7/1/1962 | Allau'd-din Hasan Gangu alias Jafar Khan. The Muslim kingdom of Bahmani dynasty in the south as Sultan Allau'd-din Khalji. He renamed Gulbarga, his capital as 'Hasanabad'. |
| 3/1/1968 | Salil Ashok Ankola, cricketer (Indian pace bowler one Test 1989), was born in Solapur. |
| 8/17/1932 | V.S. Naipaul, great Indian writer, was born. |
| 2/18/1823 | Gopal Hari Deshmukh, lokhitwadi, was born. |
| 2/18/1665 | The Portuguese handover Mumbai island to England. |
| 12/26/1989 | Keshav Shankar Pillai, international fame cartoonist, painter, writer and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away. |
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