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Historical Event on 11/22/1989

General Election ( 9th) of India begins for Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in 5 states.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/30/1997At least 20 civilians were killed and over 30 injured in unprovoked firing by Pakistani troops on Kargil town in Jammu&Kashmir.
4/18/1959Premier Chou En-lai insists Tibetan Dalai Lama was abducted to India.
6/6/1999Paes-Bhupathi bagged their maiden Grand Slam doubles crown, defeating Goran Ivanisevic and Jeff Tarango in the final.
4/29/1979Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter, passed away in New Delhi at the age of 93.
1/4/1914Indira Sant, famous Marathi poet, was born.
4/16/1801Warrior Vithoji Holkar of Peshwa kingdom was assassinated.
1/11/1999Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu.
3/5/1931Mahatma Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign a pact referred in Indian History as ""Gandhi-Irwin Pact"", after which the civic disobedience movement was taken back.
3/11/1863Maharaja Sayaji Rao III, great nationalist and social reformer, was born at Nasik.
4/20/1993Jharkhand Movement suspends its 36-days old economic blockade.