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Historical Event on 7/11/2000
Amrita Pritam, noted litterateur, honoured with the highest award for Punjabi literature for the century:""Shatabdi Samman"".
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/17/1892 | Shri Hanuman Prasad Poddar, social reformer, revolutionary and poet, was born in Shillong. |
| 2/11/1913 | Surendranath Dwivedi, educationist, politician and writer, was born in Khandasahi (Orissa). |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 8/15/1947 | The Defence department becomes the Ministry of Defence under a Cabinet Minister. Each service was placed under its own Commander-in-Chief. Under the Constitution, the supreme command of the Armed Forces was vested with the President. |
| 7/8/1997 | 33 persons killed and 67 injured as blast rips through part of Ambala-bound train at Lehra Khana station in Bhatinda district, Punjab. |
| 3/22/1902 | Great Britain and Persia agree to link Europe and India by telegraph. |
| 8/21/2000 | Mahatma Gandhi's daughter-in-law Mrs. Nirmala Gandhi dies in Wardha. She was 91. |
| 3/27/1845 | Wilhelm Conrad Von Roentgen, professor and first nobel prize winner, was born at Lennep, Germany. |
| 12/28/1932 | Britain says it is to release 28,000 prisoners, including Gandhi. |
| 5/26/1998 | Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, economist, was awarded the 1998 Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidmeiny Foundation. |
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