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Historical Event on 11/11/2000
Mohun Bagan wins the Durand Cup in New Delhi.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/22/1702 | The ""English Company of Merchants"" and the old East India Company was named the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies"". In1833, this name finally changed to East India Company. |
9/18/1967 | English was adopted the official language of Nagaland . |
11/22/1988 | Baba Amte wins U.N. Human Rights Award. |
10/12/1998 | Sushma Swaraj is sworn in Delhi Chief Minister in place of Mr. Sahib Singh Verma |
10/20/1999 | The Centre accepts the recommendations of the Backward Classes Commission on the inclusion of Jats and other backward classes (OBCs) in Rajasthan except Bharatpur and Dholpur districts. |
11/30/1994 | Mrinalini Desai, freedom fighter and famous litterateur, died. |
10/12/1999 | Sachidanand Sakshi, former BJP MP, joined SP. |
9/14/1992 | S. A. Banerjee, cricketer who played one Test for India in 1948 without scoring any runs but took 5 wkts, died. |
3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
8/12/1992 | 72 militants surrendered before Punjab CM Beant Singh. |
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