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Historical Event on 2/11/1933
First edition of weekly ""Harijan"" edited by Mahatma Gandhi was published from Pune in English and Hindi.
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| 11/30/1990 | Admiral Laxmi Narayan Ramdas takes over as Chief of Naval Staff. |
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| 6/29/1873 | Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, first Bengali modern poet, died. |
| 3/24/1947 | Lord Louis Mountbatten came to India. |
| 3/16/1910 | Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi sr, England & India), was born in Pataudi, Punjab. |
| 3/21/1966 | Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-P3) placed into polar orbit. This carries remote sensing payload and an X-ray astronomy payload. Launched by third developmental flight of India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-D3) which is for launching 1,000-1,200 kg class of remote sensing satellites into polar sun-synchronous orbit. Still in service. |
| 12/11/1926 | Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding |
| 10/25/1980 | Sahir Ludhiyanvi, famous Urdu poet, died. |
| 5/5/1966 | Jan Congress Party was established in Orissa. |
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