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Historical Event on 7/11/2000

Amrita Pritam, noted litterateur, honoured with the highest award for Punjabi literature for the century:""Shatabdi Samman"".

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/5/1995Tarapur nuclear station controls the leakage and soil contamination within the natural background radiation levels.
11/9/1967Bhartiya Kranti Dal, a new political party founded.
12/17/1987Bhopal court orders the Union Carbide to pay Rs. 350 crore as interim relief to 1984 gas victims.
10/10/1999Congress-NCP talks still on forming a Government in Maharashtra.
10/10/1978Rohini Khadilkar, fifteen years old, became the first woman to win the national chess championship. Presently, she is the editor of a leading Marathi newspaper of Mumbai 'Nava Kaal'.
2/28/1968International City Auroville inaugurated the Aurobindo Ashram in Pondechery.
7/24/1989A majority of opposition members in Lok Sabha resign on the issue of C & AG report on Bofors gun deal.
6/29/1924Ezra Laderman, NYC, composer (Jacob & the Indians), was born.
4/26/1813Swati Tirunal Ramavarma, outstanding composer of Carnatic music in Kerala, was born in a royal family of Travancore.
8/26/1997Vice President Krishan Kant takes over as Chairman of Rajya Sabha.