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Historical Event on 11/2/1999
BJP suffers jolt in Bihar as it fails to win a single seat it contested in the October 28 poll to four Lok Sabha seats.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/23/1926 | Swami Shradhanand, great revolutionary freedom fighter, social worker and politician, was assassinated by a revolver shot that was fired by a young Muslim Abdul Rashid. |
| 6/28/1972 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis died. He was the first founder of Indian statistical Institute to receive world recognition. In 1958, he started his national sample surveys. A Sample survey means assessing a situation by studying a part of it which would represent the whole, some of his proposals were included in the second five year paln. His original work made him elected as fellow of the Royal society in 1945. |
| 1/1/1973 | Indian General Insurance Corporation nationalised. |
| 10/24/1789 | Jean C Baud, Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1834-6), was born |
| 3/17/1999 | An international seminar on UN Peacekeeping was co-jointly hosted by Ministry of External affairs and Ministry of Defence at New Delhi from 17 to 19 March 1999. The seminar was conducted by HQ Army Training Command, Shimla on behalf of the Indian Army. A total of 126 foreign delegates from 71 countries participated in the seminar. |
| 3/21/1934 | Buta Singh, former Home Minister of India, was born. |
| 12/20/1992 | BJP launches campaign to oust Rao government; Vajpayee goes on fast. |
| 8/8/1905 | Dhyanchand, great Hockey player, was born. |
| 11/29/1953 | Benegal Narsing Rau, foremost Indian Jurist of his time, passed away at Zurich. He performed some very prominent duties towards the nation. He was Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and a judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice at Hague. |
| 8/22/1992 | Congress (I) with its allies secures a simple majority in the Lok Sabha following the merger of Telugu Desam into the party. |
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