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Historical Event on 4/11/1999

The DRDO has successfully flight tested AGNI-11 with a range of 2000 km, using solid propellant rocket motors in both stages and rail mobile launcher system from its new launch complex in the Orissa Coast. With this launch the country has reached the point of operationalisation of AGNI-11 as a weapon system. (1-1-2000).

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/1/1991Stone laid for the Sanskrit University at Kaladi, the birthplace of Adi Sankara.
6/23/1993RBI cuts minimum lending rate by 1%.
12/31/1802Peshwa Baji Rao-II, after being defeated by Yashwant Rao Holkar, signed the treaty of Subsidiary Allowance and accepted security of British Government.
8/15/1955Satyagrah started for the freedom of Goa.
10/19/1921Pandurangshastri Athvle, founder of 'Swadhyay Pariwar', was born.
12/22/1977Nalinibala Devi, Assamese poet, passed died.
6/5/1999The Army releases documents seized from three Pakistani soldiers in the Batalik sector to substantiate its claim that Pakistan regulars are involved in the Kargil conflict.
8/2/1922Gangaprasad Birla, great industrialist, was born.
1/5/1890Ganendra Mohan Tagore died.
5/15/1817Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, Bengali social reformer and father of Rabindranath Tagore, was born.