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Historical Event on 11/7/1990
Lawrence Durrell, great Indian English and author (Mount Olive), passed away at the age of 78.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/9/1904 | Panchanan Maheshwari was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers with different embryological studies. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchanani |
| 4/9/1783 | Tipu Sultan drives out English from Bednoor, India. |
| 12/11/1881 | Subramania Bharati was born at Ettaiyapuram. |
| 10/1/1867 | Dr. Hiralal, a distinguised historian, was born in Katni near Jabalpur. He compiled a descriptive catalogue of Sanskrit and Prakrit Manuscripts in the Central Provinces and was an honorary correspondent in Archaeology to the Government of India. He was also titled as "Rai Bahadur |
| 7/19/1974 | Udham Singh's, revolutionary, ashes brought to Delhi from London. |
| 9/22/1999 | Former Test all-rounder Chandu Borde was re-appointed chairman of National Selection Committee on Day two of the BCCI AGM in Jaipur. |
| 11/24/1988 | Mizoram became the first Lok Sabha member. |
| 2/14/1929 | Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. |
| 4/22/1923 | Babani Sheshagiri Pai, social worker and journalist, was born at Ankola in Karnataka. |
| 4/22/1923 | Mahmud Gawan was appointed as Prime Minister, an office which he held till his execution. |
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