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Historical Event on 11/1/1996

Three national parties (Indira Congress, Janata Party and Samata Party) to lose their recognition as national parties as they failed to get the minimum required support in the general election to the 11th Lok Sabha.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/13/1947Riots sweep Lahore in Punjab; mobs stone Gandhi's house.
2/12/1882Satyendranath Dutt, famous Bengali poet, was born.
3/2/1994Autonomous Hill Council for Leh set up.
12/7/1825First Steam Engine Ship ""Enterprise"" reached Calcutta.
6/5/1995A three-week long, the first ever Indo-US joint army training exercise begins.
12/10/1997Salman Haidar appointed India's High Commissioner to Britain. He succeeded M. L. Singhvi.
12/29/19578,000 ton cruiser INS Mysore commissioned.
1/3/1836Munshi Newal Kishore, son of Jamuna Prasad Bhargava--a zamindar of Aligarh-- and a great erudite scholar, educationist, nationalist, social worker and a pioneer industrialist, was born. He was the founder of Navalkishore Press, Lucknow (1858), which published 2612 books that elaborated Hindi literature. He was the Publisher of Awadhi Newspaper in Asia.
4/17/1946Bellary Raghava, famous actor, social worker, lawyer and dramatist, passed away.
1/18/1992Muthuswami Pillai, father of Bharat Natyam classical dance, passed away.