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Historical Event on 11/7/1996
Cyclonic storm hits Andhra Pradesh.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/20/1939 | Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe, great Indian astronomer, was born. |
| 11/15/1993 | Supreme Court rules that the CEC is supreme |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 2/18/1993 | Pieter de Carpentier, flemish Governor General of Dutch East-Indies, was born. |
| 10/10/1998 | Uzma Khan and Nitin Kirtane bag the women's and men's crowns in the national tennis championships in Delhi. |
| 1/26/1882 | Telephone line started working between Mumbai and Calcutta. |
| 11/11/1888 | Acharya Kripalani, nationalist and member of the Parliament, was born at Hyderabad, Sind. |
| 5/5/1947 | Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable. |
| 9/6/1995 | Salil Chaudhary, famous music director in Hindi film industry, passed away. |
| 9/8/1990 | Mother Teresa re-elected head of Missionaries of Charity. |
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