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Historical Event on 2/11/1989
Pandit Narendra Sharma passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/21/1947 | The office of Controller of Military Accounts (Pensions), Lahore was bifurcated and the pension work relating to Indian nationals was transferred to Allahabad. |
| 8/15/1997 | K.Sasikaran gets third IM norm in British Open Chess tournament. |
| 8/17/1944 | Indian Viceroy Viscount Wavell rejects Gandhi's request to discuss war support in return for Indian independence. |
| 4/10/1901 | Amiya Chakravarty, educationist, was born at Serampore in West Bengal. |
| 8/14/1996 | Amrit Rai, son of Munshi Premchand, died. |
| 11/7/1858 | Bipinchandra Ramchandra Pal, powerful revolutionary and journalist, was born in a place called Silhat (now in Bangladesh). He was amoung the trio which was known as ""Lal - Bal - Pal"" during the freedom struggle. He started as newspaper called ""Swaraj"" for the Indians in England. He also edited several other newspapers like ""Tribune"", ""New India"", ""Vande Mataram"", ""Swaraj"", ""Hindu Review"", ""Democra |
| 7/30/1960 | Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, great freedom fighter, leader and 'Lion of Karnataka', 0died. He was a loyal Congress leader. |
| 10/22/1947 | There were bound to be difficulties in consolidating the loosely federated Indian provinces, princely states, etc. into one homogeneous whole state. Kashmir, after initial dithering, acceded to India voluntarily and by popular consent, then, was invaded by Pakistani tribesmen with the support of the Pakistani government. |
| 10/23/1999 | A Boeing 707 carrying Venezuela President Hugo Chavez and his entourage lands safely at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai following a suspected tyre burst. |
| 7/3/1996 | 25 to 30\% hike in prices of petroleum products. |
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