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Historical Event on 7/11/1897
Sibnath Banerjee, great social worker, freedom fighter and leader, was born in village Brahman Rangdia, Khulna district.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/8/1986 | L.K. Advani elected President of BJP. |
| 9/18/1924 | Mahatma Gandhi was to fast for 21 days in despair of the recent riots between Muslims and Hindus. It was an expression of his 'unbearable hopelessnes'. ""Nothing I say or write,"" he said, ""can bring the two communities together."" Even as he spoke there were reports of further riots at Kohat, in which 20 Hindus and 11 Muslims were killed. Reservations, Gandhi speaking in Allahabad said, reserved the right to drink water with or without salt. ""It is both a penance and a prayer. As it is penance I need not have taken the public into my confidence but I publish it as, let me hope, an effective prayer to Hindus and Muslims, not to commit suicide"". |
| 11/13/1962 | Yezdani Gulam, great researcher, archeologist and art critic, died |
| 9/19/1704 | Guru Govind Singh died. |
| 6/1/1998 | Finance Minister announced the Swadeshi budget. |
| 3/29/1999 | A massive earthquake in the Garhwal region of Uttar Pradesh in the inner Himalayas claims 85 lives and more than 130 injured. |
| 7/27/1927 | Krishna Baldev Vaid, famous story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 5/15/1873 | The proposal to dissolve East India Company was passed in England. |
| 10/20/1905 | Mohansing Mahir, famous modern Punjabi poet, was born. |
| 6/19/1931 | Nandini Satpathy, politician, was born at Cuttack in Orissa. |
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