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Historical Event on 4/11/1999

Chetan Baboor and Poulomi Ghatak won the men's and women's titles resp. in the India Cup table tennis in Mumbai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/12/1947Gandhiji addresses Congress Working Committee.
6/18/1946Congress Working Committee decides to accept Interim Government scheme.
10/3/1906Govind Vinayak Devansthali, Sanskrit researcher, dictionary creator, professor and journalist, was born in Bombay.
7/23/1956India celebrates the birth centenary of Bal Gangadhar ""Lokmanya"" Tilak.
3/5/1919M.L. Kapoor, great industrialist, was born at Lahore.
4/30/1870Dadasaheb Phalke alias Dhundiraj Gobind Phalke was born at Trymbakeshwar near Nasik, Maharashtra. He is remembered as the 'Father of Indian Cinema'. He produced India's first feature Film, 'Raja Harishchandra' and founded Phalke & Co. at Bombay. He was a director, producer, writer, editor & laboratorian, portrait photographer and also a scene-painter.
6/7/1989Sheetal Pandya set up a world record at the age of 5 years.
10/15/1686Aurangzeb attacked and conqured Bijapur and this was the end of the Muslim Adilshahi's era.
10/15/1686Firuz Shah Tughluq, the third emperor of Delhi, died at the age of 83.
2/25/1923S. Kumaran, political, social reformer and Trade Union worker, was born in Alleppey, Kerala.