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Historical Event on 5/11/1930
Ganesh Narayan R, great Industrialist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/18/1998 | India may take the US to WTO. |
| 9/14/1949 | Hindi declared the national language by the Constituent Assembly after a three-day debate. |
| 12/11/1958 | Wilson Jones became India's first individual World Champion when he won the Amateur Billiards Championship. |
| 10/29/1991 | Barister Waman Barlinge (Dadasaheb), great freedom fighter, former Rajya Sabha member and Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, passed away. |
| 2/25/1976 | India announces plan to penalize parents who have more than two children. |
| 10/30/1994 | India seeks Chinese support for Security Council membership. |
| 7/11/2000 | Amrita Pritam, noted litterateur, honoured with the highest award for Punjabi literature for the century:""Shatabdi Samman"". |
| 1/26/1882 | Telephone line started working between Mumbai and Calcutta. |
| 11/15/1913 | Ravindranath Tagore (1861-1941), received the message that he was awarded with Noble Prize in literature for his collection of poems ""Gitanjali"" . He was the first Indian to be awarded with Nobel Prize. (13 or 15) |
| 9/15/1909 | Thiru Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai, ''Anna'', founder of DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, also an editor, writer, orator and patriot, was born in a weaver community of Kanchipuram. |
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