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Historical Event on 11/8/2000

Queen Ingrid (90), Denmark's Swedish born queen mother and great-grand daughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, died in Copenhagen.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/31/1885St. Stephen's Hospital was opened. It was the first hospital for women and children at Delhi.
7/5/1905Lord Curzon joined the part of Bengal to Asam and divided Bengal.
12/20/1987Sweden beats India in Gothenburg (5-0) in 76th Tennis Davis Cup .
10/29/1990Vinod Mehra, famous Hindi film actor, died.
1/25/2000The Centre begins the process of privatising the country's domestic carrier, Indian Airlines, and also approves the sale of majority equity in Modern Foods India Limited.
10/1/1854Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26.
4/29/2000The Army institutes a high-level court of inquiry under Maj. Gen. C.B. Suku to look into the causes of the arms depot conflagration.
1/30/1905Pitamber Das, social reformer and politician, was born at Mowana, U.P.
3/9/1897Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official).
6/19/1747Nadirshaha passed away.