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2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
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2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

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Legislative Assembly elections were held in 2016 for all 294 seats of the Vidhan Sabha in the Indian state of West Bengal. The All India Trinamool Congress under Mamata Banerjee won 211 seats, and thus returned to power with an enhanced majority. As in the 2011 election, the election was held in six phases, with the fi…

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Mamata Banerjee
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Mamata Banerjee is an Indian politician who is serving as the current chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal …

Olympia Dukakis
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Olympia Dukakis
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Olympia Dukakis was an American actress. She performed in more than 130 stage productions, in some 60 films, and in appr…

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On This Day

10 events
2014
Russo-Ukrainian_war
Russo-Ukrainian War: Forty-eight people were killed during a confrontation between pro-Russian protesters and pro-Ukrainian unity protesters in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa.
2014
2014_Badakhshan_mudslides
Two mudslides in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, killed at least 350 people.
2011
Killing_of_Osama_bin_Laden
Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six in his private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
2011
Conservative_Party_of_Canada
The Conservative Party of Canada won enough seats in the federal election to establish their first majority government.
2008
Chaitén_(volcano)
The Chaitén volcano in Chile began to erupt for the first time since around 1640.
2003
Cyclone_Manou
Cyclone Manou formed in the Indian Ocean; over the next two weeks it struck Madagascar and left more than 100,000 people homeless.
1999
Mireya_Moscoso
Mireya Moscoso (pictured) became the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
1995
Croatian_War_of_Independence
Croatian War of Independence: Serb forces began rocket attacks on the Croatian capital Zagreb, killing 7 people and injuring around 200 others.
1982
Falklands_War
Falklands War: HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano (pictured), the only ship ever to have been deliberately sunk by a nuclear submarine in battle.
1964
Vietnam_War
Vietnam War: An explosion attributed to Viet Cong commandos caused the escort carrier USNS Card to sink in the port of Saigon.

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