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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 |
| 11/21/1947 | First postal stamp of indepedent India of three and half annas denomination was started. Major General Cariappa took over from Lieutenant General Sir Francies Tulker as the Army Commander, Eastern Command, in the rank of Lieutenant General. |
| 12/21/1952 | Saifuddin Kitchlu awarded the Lenin Peace Prize of U.S.S.R. Award. He was the first Indian to receive this honour. |
| 10/19/1905 | Prince and Princess of Wales leave on an official visit to India at London. |
| 8/3/1994 | The first successful heart transplant operation was performed at the All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, by a team of doctors led by Prof. P. Venugopal (25-2-96). |
| 3/24/1991 | Bhau Samarth, internationaly famed painter, passed away. |
| 3/24/1991 | Husain Quli, the new Governor of Bengal, defeated the rebels and put them to fight. Daud was captured and put to death. |
| 4/20/1887 | Padmabhushan Jemini Roy, famous painter, was born. |
| 7/14/1998 | India is elected chairperson of the World Intellectual Property Organisation's standing panel on information technology in relation to Intellectual Property Rights. |
| 3/26/1999 | Indian Airlines regained the National hockey men's title in Hyderabad. |
| 4/8/1998 | Prem Singh Lalpura, who defied the Akali Dal leadership, not taking oath as a Lok Sabha member on denial of a ministerial berth, is expelled by the party. |
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