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Historical Event on 8/11/1954
Yashpal Barburam Sharma, cricketer (Indian right-handed batsman early 80'), was born in Ludhiana.
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4/24/1959 | Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie. |
3/31/1980 | Nirmal Mukherjee, the last Indian Civil Service Officer, retired from service as Cabinet Secretary. |
11/7/1900 | Ranga N.G, professor and politician, was born. |
11/9/1904 | Panchanan Maheshwari was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers with different embryological studies. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchanani |
11/19/1910 | Gohar alias Gohar A. Kayoum Mamajiwala was born at Lahore. She was a film actress. Her first film was 'Fortune & Fools' (1925). Other films were 'Lanka Ni Laadi', 'Handsome', 'Briefless Barrister', 'Thief of Delhi', 'Punjab Mail', 'My Darling' and 'The Web'. |
2/4/1973 | India's then biggest commercial ship merchant fleet 88,000 DWT super tanker ""Jawaharlal Nehru"" commenced its services for the Nation. |
6/29/1966 | Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, famous mathematics expert, died. |
5/23/1942 | Lt Gen Joseph Stilwell and his men arrive at Dimapur, having retreated 150 miles (240 km) through the Burmese jungle. `We took a hell of a beating,' he said. |
6/23/1992 | Tin Bigha Day protest in India of corridor opening to Bangladesh. |
1/14/1758 | Emperor of England's charter allowed the East India Company to keep to any booty taken in war against the enemies of the king and the company. The confisticated goods, after the war, could be kept with them. |
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