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Historical Event on 3/24/1998

G.M.C. Balayogi of the Telugu Desam is elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha as the candidate of the BJP-led Government.

Other Historical Dates and Events
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5/1/1998India and Peru sign agreements on space technology and agriculture during the visit of Indian President K. R. Narayanan there.
5/27/2000In a mini cabinet reshuffle, Nitish Kumar gets back his Agriculture portfolio, while Dilip Ray resigns as Minister of State for Steel.
2/22/1944Kasturba Gandhi passed away in British imprisonment in Aga Khan Palace at Pune.
4/30/1947The entire nation is stirred by religious strife.
8/5/1965M. V. Sridhar, cricketer (scored 366 for Hyderabad vs Andhra Pradesh, 1994), was born.
3/15/1950Planning Commission Day.
12/1/2000An armed intruder snipes at naval commando Satvir Singh at the official residence of the Navy Chief Admiral Sushil Kumar in the high- security Rajaji Marg area in New Delhi. The Navy sets up an enquiry board to probe the incident.
6/16/1893Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar, social worker and industrialist, was born at Athikkadu Thekkur in Tamil Nadu.