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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 |
| 7/18/1987 | Arun Singh, union minister of state for defence, resigns from the cabinet. |
| 9/18/1879 | Welthy Housinger Fisher, an American adult educationist in India, was born. |
| 12/11/1990 | T. N. Seshan appointed CEC, and Mohan Dharia Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission. |
| 12/11/1990 | Father Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of the Jesuits, 35, and three friends set sail from Lisbon, Portugal for Goa. They became the first Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India. |
| 1/15/1971 | Dinanath Damodar Dalal, great artist, passed away. |
| 10/3/1957 | Republican Party of India established. |
| 7/25/1987 | Giani Zail Singh (1916-1994) retired from the post of seventh President. |
| 7/21/1988 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1C) launched. This is operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite. It served for only one and a half years. It was launched by European Ariane launch vehicle Ariane-3. |
| 4/1/1978 | India's sixth Five-Year Plan commenced. |
| 4/1/1978 | Saint Gora Kumbhar, an intense devotee of the deity Vitthal at Pandharpur, took Samadhi in Ter village in Osmanabad Zilla, near Latur. |
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