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Historical Event on 3/24/1998

G.M.C. Balayogi of the Telugu Desam is elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha as the candidate of the BJP-led Government.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/15/1999Notorious criminal Surendra alias Dolatpuri is shot dead in a police encounter at Khatavli, Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh.
3/13/1991President R. Venkataraman dissolves the Lok Sabha.
10/20/1990Kona Prabhakar Rao, former Governor of Maharashtra, died.
12/26/1947K.M. Munshi is appointed Govt. of India's agent in Hyderabad State.
12/26/1831Hennry Louis Vivian Derozio passed away.
12/20/1990Supreme Court stays Delhi High Court judge Justice Chawla's orders on the Bofors issue.
12/4/1829Britain abolished ""sati"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre)
11/19/1970Bhupinder Singh Jr, cricketer (Punjab & Indian ODI batsman), was born.
4/15/1901Balakrishna Janardan Mohoni, cricket Test Umpire for 11 Tests from 1948-57, was born in Maharashtra.
4/15/1901Maharana Pratap Singh of Udaipur, great freedom fighter, soldier and revolutionary, passed away. His son Amar Singh succeeded him.