Historical Events
Assassination Attempt
1955 Chartered Air India plane the “Kashmir Princess” is bombed and crashes into the South China Sea in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by a Kuomintang secret agent
- 2019 First day of voting in Indian general elections, the world’s largest democracy with 900 million eligible voters in the world’s largest-ever election (till 23rd May)
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Famous Birthdays
- 1856 Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionary in India, born in Moorslede, Belgium (d. 1893)
- 1869 Kasturba Gandhi, Wife of Mahatma Gandhi, born in Gujarat, India (d. 1944)
