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11 JAN HISTORY EVENTS

Today in Indian History Events for January 11

11-January-1613Emperor Jahangir in a proclamation permitted East India Company to establish factories in Surat. And the first British factory was established under Thomas Aldworth.

11-January-1858Shridhar Pathak, famous Hindi poet, was born.

11-January-1859Lord Curzon, Governor General and Viceroy, was born.

11-January-1921Vasudevacharya Kerur, famous Kannad novelist, drama writer and journalist, passed away.

11-January-1955Production of Newsprint paper factory started for the first time in India.

11-January-1958Two lakh Indians in East Pakistan were rounded up and lodged in concentration camps.

11-January-1960Pakistan and India agree on disputed boundary between Punjab and W. at Pakistan.

11-January-1966Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Prime Minister (1964-66), passed away at Tashkent, U.S.S.R. at 1:32, age 61. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously.

11-January-1966Gulzarilal Nanda was appointed as the acting Prime Minister of India. He held this position till January 24, 1966.

11-January-1966Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratn

11-January-1973Rahul Dravid, cricket batsman, was born in Indore.

11-January-1975Oil struck in third Bombay High rig.

11-January-1986The Naval Dockyard Bombay celebrates its 250th Anniversary.

11-January-1986The first MiG-27M fighter, built under license by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, is delivered and inducted into the Indian Air Force.

11-January-1986Union Government declares Ladakh a Scheduled Tribe area under a constitutional amendment order by the President, applying article 342 for the first time to J&K.

11-January-1990R. Shekhar became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 14/12/90).

11-January-1991Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (1896-1995).

11-January-1991Five JD ministers at the Centre disqualified by Speaker Rabi Ray on the basis of anti-defection law.Five disqualified ministers who tendered their resignation were asked to continue in office by the PM.

11-January-1991Ravi Naik of Maharashtra Gomanthak party sworn in as the CM of Goa.

11-January-1993Communal violence in Bombay and Ahmedabad spreads; By-elections postponed.

11-January-1994Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy.

11-January-1994Shankarrao Savekar, veteran cameraman of film industry, passed away.

11-January-1995Kumari Anandan replaces Vazhapadi K. Ramamurthy as TNCC (I) chief.

11-January-1996Canadian PM Jean Chretien visits New Delhi.

11-January-1998C. V. Gadkari, great Indian Test all-rounder 1953-55, passed away.

11-January-1999Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu.

11-January-2000Mrs. Anju, wife of Shoaib Ilyasi of 'India's Most Wanted' famed serial, dies under mysterious circumstances.


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