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Historical Event on 11/8/1999
The Government announces waiver of telephone bills up to Rs. 1000 in the rural areas of cyclone-hit Orissa.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/14/1948 | Law about Atomic Energy implemented in India. |
| 3/28/1926 | Pahelam Ratanji ""Polly"" Umrigar, cricketer (Indian batsman & captain), was born in Sholapur, Maharashtra. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 4/28/1945 | Ajit Manohar Pai, cricketer (one Test India v NZ 1969), was born in Bombay. |
| 4/16/1992 | Arjun Singh, Pawar, Antony win CWC polls. |
| 8/16/1991 | C. Achuta Menon, former CM of Kerala, passed away. |
| 5/27/1952 | United Nationalist Party and the Indian Democratic Party combined to form one opposition party - National Democratic Party with Dr. S. P. Mukherjee as leader. |
| 11/16/1913 | Agnihotri Ambadas Shankar, journalist and litterateur, was born. |
| 12/6/1993 | Samrendra Kundu, former foreign state minister and socialist of Orrisa, passed away. |
| 5/29/1987 | Chaudhary Charan Singh, former Prime Minister, leader of farmers and freedom fighter, passed away at the age of 85 yrs. |
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