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Historical Event on 11/11/1998

V. M. Devaraj (78), DMK leader and former MLA, passed away after a brief illness. He represented Vellore in 1980, 1984 and 1989. He was a close associate of the DMK founder, C. N. Annadurai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/6/199339 people were killed and three officials abducted in J&K .
3/18/1991West Bengal opts for assembly poll.
11/16/1993Kashmir's 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants' surrender.
2/24/1986Rukmini Devi passed away.
10/17/1915Virendra Kumar Jain, great Hindi writer, was born in Mandsaur.
3/24/1968The second Indian-made rocket 'Menaka' successfully launched at the Thumba station.
5/8/1959Dalai Lama will not be allowed to campaign for Tibetan independence in India. India wants to maintain friendly relations with Communist China.
8/12/1979Heavy rains resulted in bursting of a dam thus causing floods in Moorvi and Lilapur in Gujarat, killing over 1,335 people.
9/19/1960Sindhu River water-sharing settement was signed between India and Pakistan.
11/20/1917J.C. Bose Research Institute was established in Calcutta.