11 DEC  TODAY IN HISTORY DINVISHESH GHADAMODI

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Today in Indian History
Events for December 11

11-December-1687	Madras' first presidency chartered with a Mayor s court as a Municipal Corporation.
11-December-1780	Goddard General, Bassein fort was captured near Bombay.
11-December-1783	Peshwa Raghobadada, who ruled upto Atak, passed away.
11-December-1843	Robert Koch, famous French scientist, was born in Clausthal village, Germany.
11-December-1845	First battle between Britishers and Sikhs. In 1849, Punjab lost its independence. This is referred as the first Anglo-Sikh War.
11-December-1872	Rajkhova Benudhar, modern Assamese poet, was born.
11-December-1876	Raobahadur Yeshwantrao Harishchandra Desai, famous architect, was born.
11-December-1881	Subramania Bharati was born at Ettaiyapuram.
11-December-1906	Mysore Gururaj Vijayasarathi, cricket Test umpire for 13 tests from 1951-60, was born in Karnataka.
11-December-1908	New law suspends trial by jury and increases penalties for 'sedition.'
11-December-1922	Dilip Kumar, famous film actor, was born.
11-December-1926	Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding"
11-December-1929	Subhash Pandharinath ""Fergie"" Gupte, cricketer (brilliant Indian leg-spinner), was born in Bom
11-December-1931	Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ""Osho"", guru of the rich, was b
11-December-1938	Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi, famous Hindi litterateur and editor, passed away.
11-December-1958	Wilson Jones became India's first individual World Champion when he won the Amateur Billiards Championship.
11-December-1963	Kewalam Madhav Panikkar, veteran politician and famous historian, passed away.
11-December-1967	6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed.
11-December-1968	Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.
11-December-1971	The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions -India's 'Red Devils', as they are affectionately called, have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent.
11-December-1976	Aliyawar Jung, former Governor of Maharashtra, died.
11-December-1986	The United Nations Children's fund (UNICEF) completes 40 years of work on behalf of children (11-12-86).
11-December-1987	Rajiv Government defeats the first ever no-confidence motion.
11-December-1988	Dr. Nagendra Singh, 74, President of the International Court of Justice, passed away in Hague.
11-December-1990	Naresh Chandra was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-07-1992
11-December-1990	T. N. Seshan appointed CEC, and Mohan Dharia Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission.
11-December-1991	Murali Manohar Joshi, BJP President, sets out on 'the Kanyakumari to Kashmir Ekta Yatra' (unity march).
11-December-1991	The centre notifies the interim order of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal directing Karnataka to release 205 tmc ft of water to Tamil Nadu.
11-December-1991	R. G. Sardesai, veteran journalist, died.
11-December-1992	UP acquistion of land in Ayodhya quashed by Allahabad High Court.
11-December-1993	Shankar Dayal Sharma, President, inaugurates the extended new wing of Nagpur Vidhan Bhavan.
11-December-1994	H.D. Deve Gowda, Janata Dal leader, assumes office as CM of Karnataka.
11-December-1996	T. N. Seshan retires. M. S. Gill becomes the new election Chief Election Commissioner.
11-December-1998	Kavi Pradeep (84), poet who received 1998 Dadasaheb Phalke award, dies in Mumbai. He was a patriotic song writer and wrote several immortal Hindi film songs.
11-December-1998	Poet Pradeep (Ramchandra Divedi) died at 1850 hrs today.
11-December-1999	Dr. M. L. Madhu, poet and translator, wins the Pushkin Gold Medal award.
11-December-1999	Leander Paes capped a brilliant year with his successive Challenger title, this time in Jaipur, beating Barry Cowan in the final.
11-December-1999	Gopalakrishna Gandhi, former High Commissioner to South Africa, is conferred the honorary doctorate by the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa.