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Historical Event on 9/11/1911
Amarnath Lala, right-hand Indian all-rounder of 30s and 40s, was born at Lahore in Pakistan. He was awarded with Padma Bhushan in 1991.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/10/1996 | Centre sets up Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission. |
| 8/15/1997 | The Government bans doctors from determining the sex of the foetus. |
| 9/24/1922 | Jugal Mondal, social worker and politician, was born at Howrah. |
| 9/11/1948 | Mohammad Ali Jinnah, father of Pakistan, died. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 7/26/1933 | Gandhiji went back to Sabarmati Ashram after his release from jail. |
| 5/13/1998 | India conducts two more nuclear tests at Pokhran. The US slaps sanctions. The Prime Minister says India will face down sanctions. |
| 12/10/1952 | World's first official Family Planning programme launched in India. |
| 4/17/1946 | Bellary Raghava, famous actor, social worker, lawyer and dramatist, passed away. |
| 4/30/1998 | Anna Hazare, social worker, was awarded the CARE International humanitarian award for 1998. |
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