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Historical Event on 11/11/2000

Harin Pathak, Union Minister of State for Defence, resigns after being chargesheeted by a sessions court in Ahmedabad in a case relating to the murder of a head constable at the height of the anti-reservation agitation in 1985.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/17/19037th Madras Infantry was re-established as 67th Punjabi Infantary.
8/1/1927Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza, famous Hindi litterateur, was born.
5/2/1926Hindu women gain right to seek elected office.
8/27/1910Mother Teresa, [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], nobel Prize awardee and social worker, was born in Skopje, Macedonia in Yugoslavia.
11/13/1909Gandhiji left England for South Africa and wrote ''Hind Swaraj'' on board S.S. Kildonan Castle.
3/22/1938IRFA was registered as a local body not administered by the Government on March 22, 1938 under the Government of India Act No. XXI of 1860.
6/22/198219 persons were killed and 25 injured when an Air India Boeing 707 from Singapore via Madras crashed at Bombay.
7/8/1996Mathematical Olympiad was held in Mumbai - the first time in India (from 08-17, 1996).
11/15/1988Dalai Lama agreed for less then independent country to save the cultural heritage of Tibet.
8/1/1994The Railway passenger insurance scheme comes into force.