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Historical Event on 11/7/1998
Jiwan Singh Umrangal (84), Akali leader and former Punjabi Minister, dies in hospital in Beas.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/17/1888 | Babu Gulab Rai, famous Hindi essy writer, critic and historian, was born. |
| 1/10/1993 | Atleast 15 people are killed in Bombay on the 5th day of riots between Hindus and Muslims. |
| 6/4/1903 | Gandhiji established the weekly journal ""Indian Opinion"" organised at Phoenix farm near Durban. |
| 10/11/1927 | Sarojini Regani, great journalist, was born at Secunderabad. |
| 9/9/1872 | Sarladevi Chaudharani, Bengali poet, was born. |
| 2/1/1889 | Judge Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha, Chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born. |
| 4/2/1970 | Privy purses and special privileges of former Indian rulers abolished. |
| 10/24/1995 | Total solar eclipse seen over Rajasthan, UP, Bihar and West Bengal, while partial eclipse seen in the rest of the country. |
| 11/21/1961 | Communist China announced a cease-fire in its border war with India and said it would withdraw its troops 12 miles behind the boundary lines that existed in 1959. China said it was making the move to end the hostilities and to implement proposals it had made in October to settle the border dispute. Before the ceasefire, Chinese troops had seized the Indian headquarters at Bomdila near Tibet and were threatening the Indian state of Assam. Faced with defeat on the border and a Chinese invasion, the Indian government said it would ""respond positively"" to the Chinese offer of a ceasef |
| 6/20/1997 | Second round of Foreign Secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan starts in Islamabad. |
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