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Historical Event on 11/18/1991
In the by-elections, Congress gets 8 Lok Sabha seats and suffers rout in UP assembly, while BJP gets absolute majority.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/9/2000 | The Centre appoints Yogendra Narain as the new defence secretary and K. Sibal as the secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs while effecting a major bureaucratic reshuffle. |
| 7/6/1942 | Urmila Devi Shastri, freedom fighter and editor of ""Janma Bhoomi"", died due to non-medical facility and mal-nutrition in Jail. She has also written ""Karagaar Ke Anubhav"" in 1930. She was arrested for Satyagrah and forcefully closing of Foreign Goods. |
| 9/6/1657 | Shahjahan fell ill. His four sons Dara Shikoh, Suja, Aurangzeb and Murad advanced towards Delhi to capture the throne. |
| 3/25/1987 | Marxist-led alliance gets majority in Kerala and West Bengal elections . |
| 10/14/1989 | Election Commission accepted Shiv Sena as a political party. |
| 8/21/1995 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, noted physics scientist, died at the age of 84. He was one of the world's leading astro-physicists for his contributions to the study of stars. Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science--the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983. |
| 3/24/1991 | Bhau Samarth, internationaly famed painter, passed away. |
| 3/3/1943 | Gandhi breaks his hunger strike after 21 days. |
| 10/26/1932 | Chinadorai Deshmutu, Indian field hockey player (Olympics-1952), was born. |
| 10/17/1999 | Chiranjeev Milkha Singh won the Lexus International Golf tournament in Bangkok. |
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