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Historical Event on 9/11/1995

PM Narsimha Rao inaugurated the State Panchayat minister's meet for discussing panchayat election, devolution of administrative and financial power to the local bodies.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/15/1955Satyagrah started for the freedom of Goa.
5/1/1987The Bofors Deal.
10/23/1999V. P. Singh, former Prime Minister, tops the list of star witnesses in Bofors case.
10/20/1969Punjabrao Agriculture University established.
11/8/1965British Indian Ocean Territory formed.
10/2/1994Gandhi Peace Prize instituted on the lines of Nobel Peace Prize on the great leader's 125th birth anniversary.
11/15/1982S. N. Katkar, famous poet and former editor of 'Yugvani', died.
2/22/1958Maulana Abul Kalam Azad passed away in New Delhi, India. He was a great leader, great orator, revolutionary and fighter for national freedom. Some of his works which are the masterpieces of the Urdu language are ""Ghubari-Khatir"" and Tadhkirah"". He was Minister of Education in the first Indian Government.
1/26/1997Mizoram becomes a dry state, the fourth, after Gujarat, AP and Haryana.
1/2/1932Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, famous Ragi and reluctant politician, was born in Sangrur's backward Gadarhiani village.