11 JAN  TODAY IN HISTORY DINVISHESH GHADAMODI

Today in Indian History
Events for January 11

11-January-1613	Emperor Jahangir in a proclamation permitted East India Company to establish factories in Surat. And the first British factory was established under Thomas Aldworth.
11-January-1858	Shridhar Pathak, famous Hindi poet, was born.
11-January-1859	Lord Curzon, Governor General and Viceroy, was born.
11-January-1921	Vasudevacharya Kerur, famous Kannad novelist, drama writer and journalist, passed away.
11-January-1955	Production of Newsprint paper factory started for the first time in India.
11-January-1958	Two lakh Indians in East Pakistan were rounded up and lodged in concentration camps.
11-January-1960	Pakistan and India agree on disputed boundary between Punjab and W. at Pakistan.
11-January-1966	Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Prime Minister (1964-66), passed away at Tashkent, U.S.S.R. at 1:32, age 61. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously.
11-January-1966	Gulzarilal Nanda was appointed as the acting Prime Minister of India. He held this position till January 24, 1966.
11-January-1966	Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratn
11-January-1973	Rahul Dravid, cricket batsman, was born in Indore.
11-January-1975	Oil struck in third Bombay High rig.
11-January-1986	The Naval Dockyard Bombay celebrates its 250th Anniversary.
11-January-1986	The first MiG-27M fighter, built under license by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, is delivered and inducted into the Indian Air Force.
11-January-1986	Union Government declares Ladakh a Scheduled Tribe area under a constitutional amendment order by the President, applying article 342 for the first time to J&K.
11-January-1990	R. Shekhar became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 14/12/90).
11-January-1991	Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (1896-1995).
11-January-1991	Five JD ministers at the Centre disqualified by Speaker Rabi Ray on the basis of anti-defection law.Five disqualified ministers who tendered their resignation were asked to continue in office by the PM.
11-January-1991	Ravi Naik of Maharashtra Gomanthak party sworn in as the CM of Goa.
11-January-1993	Communal violence in Bombay and Ahmedabad spreads; By-elections postponed.
11-January-1994	Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy.
11-January-1994	Shankarrao Savekar, veteran cameraman of film industry, passed away.
11-January-1995	Kumari Anandan replaces Vazhapadi K. Ramamurthy as TNCC (I) chief.
11-January-1996	Canadian PM Jean Chretien visits New Delhi.
11-January-1998	C. V. Gadkari, great Indian Test all-rounder 1953-55, passed away.
11-January-1999	Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu.
11-January-2000	Mrs. Anju, wife of Shoaib Ilyasi of 'India's Most Wanted' famed serial, dies under mysterious circumstances.