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Historical Event on 7/11/1998
Indians bag a silver and a bronze at the International Physics Olympiad in Reykjavik.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/6/1664 | Harkhishan Singh, Sikh Guru, died. |
| 5/30/1962 | 69 killed in a bus crash near Ahmedabad. |
| 5/30/1962 | Qutubu'd-din Aibak (1206-1210) was crowned at Lahore after the death of Muhammad of Ghuri. He was originally a slave of Turkestan. As he started his career as a slave, the dynasty founded by him in India is known as ""Slave Dynasty"". The construction of Qutabminar was started during his regime. Since he was very generous, the people called him ""Lakh Baksh"". |
| 9/24/1931 | 19 people were killed by police during the anti-Hindu rioting in Kashmir. |
| 10/27/1605 | Akbar (Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din), Mughal emperor of India (1556-1605), passed away of diarrhea or dysentery at the age of 63 years. After his death his body was buried at a mausoleum in Sikandra, Agra. |
| 1/11/1996 | Canadian PM Jean Chretien visits New Delhi. |
| 4/10/1993 | Student hijackers of IA plane overpowered in Lucknow. |
| 10/31/2000 | The Income Tax Department 'indicts' five cricketers - Kapil Dev, Ajay Jadeja, Manoj Prabhakar, Nikhil Chopra and Ajay Sharma - for tax evasion and concealment of income earned through ""dubious sources' |
| 12/27/1975 | 372 miners die in a huge blast in Bihar state. |
| 11/12/1781 | Nagapatnam of South India was captured by the British troops. |
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