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Historical Event on 11/7/1996

Cyclonic storm hits Andhra Pradesh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/11/1998Indians bag a silver and a bronze at the International Physics Olympiad in Reykjavik.
8/7/1925Monkombu 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.
10/10/1970Union Government ruled out judicial probe into the death of the late PM Lal Bahadur Shastri.
8/13/1943Chintamanrao Deshmukh was first Indian to be appointed Governor of Reserve Bank.
5/24/1993India and Uzbekistan sign five pacts.
11/9/1924Pandit C. R. Vyas, veteran singer, was born.
4/5/1957The first Communist ministry in a state was installed in Kerala.
3/18/1919Rowlatt Act, intended to perpetuate the extraordinary powers enjoyed by the Government under Lord Chelmsford during the war, provokes countrywide protests. This Rowlatt Act was forced instead of 1915 Indian Security Act which reduced freedom of Indian people.
1/3/2000A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, accuses Pakistan for the hijack of an Indian Airlines aircraft. (The crisis ended on Dec. 31 last with the Vajpayee Government agreeing to free three terrorists in exchange for the passengers).
12/1/1989V. P. Singh is named the new prime minister.