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Historical Event on 11/8/1991

K.P.S. Gill reappointed DGP in Punjab.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/12/1929First Maharastrian Governor Shripad Balwant Tambe was appointed as Governor of Nagpur.
8/20/1917Declaration of historic 'Mongegue'.
3/10/1995ONGC's oil rig that blew out ( January 8 ) at Pasalapudi site near Amalapuram (Andhra Pradesh) put out after 62 days.
4/12/1801Ranjit Singh proclaimed himself Maharaja of Punjab.
1/30/1993Congress (I) MLA in Andhra Pradesh P. Balaraju and eight officials kidnapped by the outlawed People's War Group in Visakhapatnam district.
12/12/1971The first aerial victory was when MiG-21FLs of No. 47 Squadron shot down a PAF F-104 over the Gulf of Kutch and this was followed by three more victories in quick succession on 17 December, when MiG-21FLs of No. 29 Squadron escorting HF-24 Maruts, shot down intercepting F-104s near Uttarlai in the Rajasthan desert in gun-missile encounters, while a third F-104, on an intruding mission, was shot down by another MiG 21FL of No.29 Squadron.
3/5/1919M.L. Kapoor, great industrialist, was born at Lahore.
8/4/1937Kashi Prasad Jayaswal, famous lawyer, philosopher, ancient researcher and eminent historian, died at Patna.
10/10/1906Narayan Rasipuram Krishnaswamy, great Indian writer, was born.
9/19/1997A Delhi court rules that interviewing of the child and parents by school authorities, for admission to primary classes, is illegal and improper.