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Historical Event on 11/7/2000

The BJP firebrand Uma Bharti makes a triumphant return to the Union Ministry as Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs and Arun Jaitley gets elevated as Cabinet Minister in a mini expansion. Maj.Gen. (Retd) B. C. Khanduri takes oath as Minister of State for Transport and Highways.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/17/1715Banda Bahadur Bairagi surrendered at Gurdaspur of Farrukhsiyar to the Mughal army.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
1/9/1994Indian diplomats and staff members evacuated from war-ravaged Kabul.
4/13/1889Balkrishna A. Pillai, litterateur and journalist, was born.
3/6/1775Raghunath Rao signed treaty of Surat with British ending the first Anglo-Maratha War.
12/25/1995First major multi-organ transplant in the country performed in Apollo Hospital in Madras.
7/28/1939Tarun Ram Phookun, great lawyer, orator, eminent writer and President of the Assam Chhatra Sammelan in 1928, passed away.
6/6/1999Paes-Bhupathi bagged their maiden Grand Slam doubles crown, defeating Goran Ivanisevic and Jeff Tarango in the final.
9/20/1998A. B. Bardhan is re-elected CPI general secretary.
3/26/1990Sangma Ministry quits in Meghalaya. B. B. Lyngdoh is new CM.