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Historical Event on 5/19/2000

A `civil coup' in Fiji ousts the first ethnic Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Pal Choudhary. President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara proclaims a state of emergency.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/24/1984Eigth General Elections of India began .
12/1/1964Jawaharlal Nehru Agriculture University established.
1/14/1938Belur Math, new temple, was consecrated in Calcutta.
2/1/1969Pinaki Chatterji and George Albert Duke on a two-man rowing expedition to the Andamans set out from Calcutta.
3/23/1911Indranath Bandopadhyay, Bengali comedy writer and journalist, passed away.
3/26/1990Maniben Patel, daughter of Sardar Vallabhai Patel, passed away.
5/22/1993Congress (I) suffers reverses in the by-elections.
9/6/2000Telecom workers launch a nation-wide strike in protest against inadequate safeguards prior to the corporatisation of the department from October 1.
12/19/1945Gandhiji lays foundation stone of C. F. Andrews' Memorial Hospital at Santiniketan.
7/2/1950Yusuf Meharali, socialist leader, died.