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Historical Event on 2/11/1997
NHRC recommends to Central Government measures to prevent government servants from employing children below 14 as domestic servants.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/20/1987 | Dr. Salim Ali, internationally renowned expert of birds, died at Bombay. |
| 8/22/1988 | Gorkha National Liberation Front signs an accord with the Centre and West Bengal on formation of an elective hill Council for Darjeeling. |
| 4/24/1993 | IA's Delhi-Srinagar Boeing with 141 persons, hijacked by a Kashmiri militant lands, in Amritsar. |
| 1/5/1988 | India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind. |
| 8/19/1992 | K.R.Narayanan elected the ninth Vice President of India. |
| 7/10/1977 | The Planning Commission decides to introduce Rolling Plan concept. |
| 5/23/1947 | The U.K. Cabinet today took the historic step of agreeing to Lord Mountbatten's proposal for the partition of India into two states, one Muslim and the other Hindu. The Viceroy is to have a series of talks with Lord Listowel, the Secretary for India. |
| 7/18/1857 | The Calcutta, Mumbai and Madras Universities were established. |
| 10/1/1997 | Gul Mohammed (36), world's shortest man, died in New Delhi. Standing 56.16 cm tall, Mohammed entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1992. |
| 2/18/1993 | Congress (I) secures absolute majority in Nagaland and emerges as the single largest party in Meghalaya. |
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