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Historical Event on 11/5/1976

Lok Sabha votes to extend its own life by another year.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/26/1966Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet.
6/8/1999ATP announced Paes-Bhupathi as No. 1 ranked doubles team. In individual doubles ranking, Bhupathi and Paes were No. 1 and 2 respectively.
1/28/1846British forcibly separate Kashmir from the Sikhs and sell it to the Maharaja of Jammu for 1,000,000 pounds after the Battle of Allwal.
4/24/1974Ramdhari Singh alias 'Dinkar', veteran famous Hindi writer and poet, passed away.
10/27/1904Jatindra Nath Das, great revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Bankim Behari in Calcutta.
3/20/1997Maharashtra (like H.P.) proposes to make carrying for aged parents mandatory.
4/26/1992Gyanapith award winner Prof. V.K.Gokak (82) passes away.
10/31/1999Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President, is conferred with the Indira Gandhi Award.
12/3/1884Dr. Rajendra Prasad, first President of India, was born in Jeradei village of Bihar.
12/3/1884Saint Francis Xavier, Jesuit priest, Spanish missionary teaching in India and Japan, was born in the Spanish kingdom of Navarre.