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Historical Event on 4/11/1999
A.K.A. Abdul Samad (72), general secretary of IUML and State unit president, died in Chennai.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/25/1995 | Parliament gives assent to Budget and passes Finance Appropriation Bill. |
| 11/13/1970 | Flooding ravages Ganges delta. 200,000 million killed. |
| 6/30/1984 | W. R. Dhavle, editor, died. |
| 2/8/1999 | Gen. K. Sundarji (69), former Chief of Army Staff, died in New Delhi. |
| 7/3/1991 | Kailash Sethi was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 22-07-1996. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 3/26/1972 | The first International Sanskrit Conference was held by President V.V Giri. |
| 3/4/1919 | Jagtindar Nath Beri, physics expert, was born. |
| 8/22/1980 | Kishor Shahu, actor and director, died. |
| 1/28/1937 | Suman Kalyanpurkar, famous singer, was born. |
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