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Historical Event on 11/24/1991

Bihar's ruling JD makes a clean sweep of all the three Lok Sabha seats in the by-elections.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/20/1987Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh becomes the 23rd and 24th states of Indian Union.
6/15/1949Uloor S. Parmeswara Iyer, famous poet, writer, editor and literature, died. He was 72.
1/4/1999Karnataka's Farah Khan made it three-in-a-row in the National ladies billiards championship in Delhi.
4/3/1999Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation.
4/22/1958Admiral R. T. Katari was appointed as the first Indian Chief of the Naval Staff.
4/15/1919British troops kill 400 Indians, who were demonstrating against the British rule at Amritsar for the forced marshall law on Punjab.
8/4/1845Pherozeshah Mehta, who published the first Hindi newspaper and one of the founders of Indian National Congress, was born in Bombay.
3/5/1995Jalal Aga, famous comedian and character artist, passed away.
4/3/1994Bhanu Prakash Singh,Goa Governor, resigns.
5/31/1994Pandit Samtaprasad, famous Tabla player, passed away.