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Historical Event on 3/24/1992

Congress (I) strength goes up by six seats in the Rajya Sabha on account of biennial polls.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/22/1989Madhya Pradesh CM Arjun Singh resigns on Churhat lottery case grounds.
2/24/1786Charles Cornwallis appointed Governor-General of India.
6/22/1993The centre bans the use of 12 pesticides.
11/17/1986SAARC Summit at Bangalore decides to set up permanent secretariat at Kathmandu; India elected new Chairman.
1/22/1996Janata Dal parliamentary party leader Sharad Yadav resigns from Lok Sabha membership (Jain hawala case).
9/20/1999Shobha Subrahmanyam, managing director of the Ananda Bazaar Patrika Group of publications, was elected President of the Indian Newspaper Society for 1999-2000.
1/9/1664Shivaji started Surat campaign and left the city after plundering the place.
9/22/1891Gangopadhyay Taraknath, famous novelist in Bengal, passed away.
3/24/1987First developmental launch of new generation rocket ASLV 'Stretched Rohini Satellite Series' (SROSS-1). This carried payload for launch vehicle performance monitoring and for gamma ray astronomy. This plunged within two minutes and 40 seconds of its launching.
6/27/1998Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan, Gandhian, Congressman and former Sikkim Governor, dies at 86.