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Historical Event on 8/11/1916
Gopal Raghunath Bewur, former Chief of Army and fighter, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/5/1995 | Common Guidance test flight of Trishul successful. |
| 6/15/1960 | Bardwan University was established in West Bengal. |
| 10/4/1977 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee, External Affairs Minister of India, addressed the UNO General Assembly in Hindi language. |
| 7/24/1997 | Country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna conferred on former interim Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda and posthumously on freedom-fighter Aruna Asaf Ali. |
| 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. |
| 2/20/1847 | Turf Club of Royal Calcutta was established. |
| 4/15/1992 | Union Carbide decides to sell its holdings in India to raise upto $ 17 million for a hospital in Bhopal. |
| 6/12/1976 | Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Gopinath Kaviraj, editor and master, died at Varanasi. |
| 9/23/1990 | World Bank clears Rs.1,200 crore aid for Sarovar Dam rejecting objections raised by environmental groups. |
| 11/16/1860 | First group of Indian worker's reached Natal, South Africa. |
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