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Historical Event on 11/9/1999

Prof. Romila Thapar, historian, is elected to the highest British academic honour.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/14/1995Major train accident near Salem when KK Express collides with goods train killing 51 people.
8/19/1999India's role in ASEAN, ARF is lauded at a colloquium in Singapore.
8/29/1612Battle at Surat in India; English fleet beats Portuguese.
9/20/1878Hindu"", an English weekly in Madras with G. S. Aiyer as its Editor, was first published with only 80 copies.
11/27/1962Britain agreed to supply arms to India.
4/1/1976Television was separated from radio, and Doordarshan Corporation was established.
5/31/1981First developmental launch of SLV-3, Rohini (RS-D1) placed in orbit. It was used for conducting some remote sensing technology studies using a landmark sensor payload.
8/13/1953Durgabai Deshmukh became the founder Chairperson of Central Social Welfare Board, which involved several voluntary organisations and workers carrying out programs like education, training and rehabilitation of needy women etc.
10/27/1989The XIV-World Congress of Neurology was held in New Delhi under the auspices of the World Federation of Neurology and Neurology Society of India. (21-10-89).
1/29/1997Supreme Court rules that water is a 'mineral'.