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Historical Event on 11/11/1793
English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/10/1977 | Jahangir Khan, famous musician, passed away. |
| 4/3/1999 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation. |
| 9/29/1994 | Cable Television Regulation Ordinance issued. |
| 5/25/1995 | Voting on the Criminal Law Bill differed again in Rajya Sabha. |
| 9/11/1913 | Waman Ganesh Talwalkar, Marathi journalist and story writer, was born. |
| 1/18/1997 | Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme Phase II begins. |
| 1/22/1986 | Satwant Singh, Balbir Singh and Kehar Singh, all sikhs, were sentenced to death for the assassination of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. |
| 11/14/1993 | Dr. Manibhai Desai, great Gandhian and social worker, passed away. |
| 12/6/1897 | Lekhraj Kishanchand Mirchandani (Aziz), famous Sindhi poet, essay writer and critic, was born. |
| 9/20/1942 | Kanak Lata Barua, a yound child who tried to host the national flag at Goupur police station in Assam with the help of 500 people, was shot by the police station incharge. |
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