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Historical Event on 12/11/1906

Mysore Gururaj Vijayasarathi, cricket Test umpire for 13 tests from 1951-60, was born in Karnataka.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/16/2000P. Moses, Indian High Commission Staff member, badly beaten up and abducted by Pakistani intelligence operators in Islamabad.
2/18/1992Vasantrao Karnik, great journalist, passed away.
3/21/1997Foreign currency reserves of RBI stand at $16 billions, which was a record of sorts.
6/30/1834Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).
11/1/1956Madhya Pradesh State High Court was established at Jabalpur having its benches in Gwalior and Indore.
4/23/1959Peking Radio reports say that Chinese troops defeated rebels in south-eastern Tibet and have closed Tibet's borders with India and Burma.
11/6/1913Mohandas K. Gandhi, leader of Indian Passive Resistance Movement, was arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa by British troops.
1/30/1903Lord Curzon opened the Imperial Library in in Metcalfe Hall at Calcutta.
7/4/2000Volvo's Environmental Prize went to Prof. Amulya K. N. Reddy of India and three others for their work on ''How the world's energy resources can be made to suffice as the population grows''.
10/24/1995A total eclipse of the sun witnessed from India to Vietnam.