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Historical Event on 11/7/1997

RBI Governor Dr. Chakravarti Rangarajan appointed new Governor of Andhra Pradesh. Dr. Bimal Jalan, Member-Secretary, Planning Commission, will take over as RBI Governor.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/27/1985The Indian National Congress party, led by Rajiv Gandhi, begins its centenary celebrations in Bombay. .
2/12/1993Kapil Dev crosses 400 wickets and 5000 runs in test cricket.
8/4/1997Supreme Court declares that the Rashtrapati Bhavan press communique of 23/1/1992 on a proposal to confer the Bharat Ratna 'posthumously' on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ""should be treated as cancelled"", as the proposal was dropped by the Government in deference to the sentiments expressed by the public and his family members.
9/17/1885Keshav Sitaram Thakrey, journalist, social reformer and historian, was born.
6/26/1906M.P. Sivagnanam, famous Tamil writer and social worker, was born at Madras.
11/2/1994Three British hostages freed in Saharanpur, UP, after a fierce encounter.
2/19/1995National Research Centre for Oil Palm(NRCOP), the only institute exclusively devoted to Oil Palm research in India, was established.
5/5/1932Prabhatkumar Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali short story writer and novelist, passed away.
7/22/1944Man Mohan Modi Seth , great industrialist, was born at Modinagar, U.P.
2/3/1954More than 500 pilgrims died in an accident on the river bank at the ""Kumbha Mela"" in Allahabad.