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Historical Event on 8/11/2000
Usha Mehta, great Gandhian, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/15/1990 | Punjab Government returned gold and other valuables seized from Golden Temple during the 1984 Blue Star operation to SGPC. |
| 2/11/1979 | Cellular Jail, which is situated at Andaman Nikobar Islands, was declared as a National Memorial. |
| 10/1/1941 | No. 3 Squadron, similarly Audax-equipped, was raised at Peshawar. |
| 1/9/1996 | PM unveils India's state-of-the-art Main Battle Rank (MBT) `Arjun' at a New Delhi function. |
| 1/1/1879 | Edward M Forster, English novelist (Howards End, Passage to India), was born. |
| 9/2/1946 | Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, passed away. |
| 6/12/1972 | D. G. Tendulkar, historian who had written the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, died. |
| 3/18/1996 | President confers gallantry awards on 65 personnel of the defence forces. |
| 11/6/1904 | Hariharnath Shastri, worker's leader, was born. |
| 7/1/1962 | Purushottamdas Tandon, great leader and editor, died at Allahabad. |
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