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Historical Event on 11/8/1991
K.P.S. Gill reappointed DGP in Punjab.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/21/1977 | K.S. Hegde elected Lok Sabha Speaker. |
| 7/5/1993 | Air Marshal Swarup Krishna Kaul appointed Chief of Air Staff. |
| 5/11/1999 | Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case: The Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence on four of the 26 accused, life imprisionment to three and acquitted the remaining 19 people. |
| 4/8/1946 | HMS Vengeance, sailed with 22 aircraft of No. 4 Sqn, halted at Singapore for re-fueling and set course for Iwakuni, a port of Kyushu island. |
| 2/11/1996 | Wills World Cup Cricket inaugurated at Calcutta. |
| 8/17/1985 | Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India. |
| 8/21/1955 | Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, noted critic of Gujarati literature, poet and story writer, passed away. |
| 10/3/1906 | Govind Vinayak Devansthali, Sanskrit researcher, dictionary creator, professor and journalist, was born in Bombay. |
| 12/25/1932 | King George V's chair collapsed during his Christmas dinner speech. |
| 3/11/1999 | Indian Davis Cup player and Asian Games gold medallist Gaurav Natekar announced in Mumbai his retirement from competitive tennis. |
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