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Historical Event on 6/11/1901

Pramathanath Bishi, professor and Hindi writer, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/28/1981Salman Rushdie is awarded the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children.
12/26/1917Prabhakar Machve, famous Hindi and Marathi litterateur, was born.
2/27/1996Manmohan Singh presents the vote-on-account as part of the interim budget in Lok Sabha for 1996-97 with a Rs. 5000 crore deficit.
3/21/1998Jaswant Singh is appointed Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission after the resignation of Prof. Madhu Dandavate.
9/30/1996Centre gives its consent to Tamil Nadu government's decision to rename Madras as Chennai.
2/22/1854Kawasji Nanabhai Dawar started the first Cloth Mill namely 'Bombay Spinning Mills'.
4/8/1953Walchand Hirachand, great Industrialist, passed away.
3/21/1979The Cytology Research Centre was set up at New Delhi (renamed as the Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology in 1988).
10/5/1997Dr. Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian woman to become an astronaut. (year 1997 or Oct. 5, 1998)
6/6/1924S. R. Bommai, former President of Janata Dal, was born.