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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 |
| 8/6/1925 | Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad. |
| 9/16/1967 | Tibetan, Indian and Chinese troops engage in fighting at Natu La pass on the Tibet-Sikkim border. |
| 1/29/1997 | Supreme Court rules that water is a 'mineral'. |
| 8/13/1956 | National Highways Act was approved by the Parliament of India. |
| 9/26/1923 | Dev Anand, film producer, director and actor, was born. |
| 11/17/1973 | Mother Pondicherry, greatest teacher and religious leader, died. |
| 11/17/1973 | Khidr Khan Syed, Governor of Lahore, replaced Daulat Khan Lodi on Delhi's throne. |
| 7/9/2000 | India clinches the inaugural Asian Cricket Council under-15 championship in Kuala Lumpur. |
| 6/27/1915 | Khanderao Moreshwar Rangnekar, 3 test matches, 33 runs, vs Australia in 1947-48, was born at Mumbai. |
| 4/18/1971 | Gavaskar makes 220 in second innings vs West Indies after 124 in first. |
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