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Historical Event on 2/11/1861
Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay was born in Khanyan village of Bengal.
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| 2/9/1942 | Chiang Kai-Shek meets Sir Stafford Cripps, British Viceroy in India. |
| 3/24/1987 | First developmental launch of new generation rocket ASLV 'Stretched Rohini Satellite Series' (SROSS-1). This carried payload for launch vehicle performance monitoring and for gamma ray astronomy. This plunged within two minutes and 40 seconds of its launching. |
| 7/31/1974 | B. S. Chawla was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 15-08-1974. |
| 1/15/1918 | K.C.D. Brahaspati, great poet, playwright and orientalist, was born at Rampur, UP. |
| 7/2/1905 | Shantiswaroop Dhavan, former Governor of West Bengal, was born. |
| 6/17/2000 | Danial Latifi (83), well known jurist and senior Supreme Court advocate, died of cancer in New Delhi. |
| 5/12/1930 | R. H. Tahiliyani, former Navy Chief of India Admiral, was born. |
| 8/17/1992 | 20 members of the Janata Dal led by Ajit Singh break away from the parent body seeking separate seats in the Lok Sabha. |
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