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Historical Event on 5/31/1977
Major Premchand and Naik Nima Dorji Sherpa, in the team on Indian Army Treckers, reached the peak of Kanchenjunga. They were amongst the first Indians to reach this peak.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/8/1980 | Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev visits New Delhi. |
| 5/22/1992 | India launches its 'Agni' rocket. |
| 5/29/1991 | P.V. Narasimha Rao elected President of Congress (I). |
| 9/29/1988 | 1988 Nobel Peace Prize for U.N. Peace-Keeping Forces. |
| 8/1/1997 | Viswanathan Anand wins the Credit Suisse Masters chess tournament in Beil. |
| 2/27/1990 | Polls in Pondicherry and eight states. |
| 12/13/1999 | The Railways announces concessions for senior citizens, students upto Class X and the poor. |
| 1/7/1859 | The Bahadur Shah II case trial was started, which ended on March 29. |
| 1/7/1859 | Saint Eknath, bhagwatbhakt, passed away. |
| 10/9/1877 | Utkalmani Pandit Gopabandhu Das, great freedom fighter, social reformer, educationist, poet, author, lawyer of modern Orrisa, was born in Puri District, Orissa. |
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