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Historical Event on 12/11/1993

Shankar Dayal Sharma, President, inaugurates the extended new wing of Nagpur Vidhan Bhavan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
2/15/1967Fourth General Election of Lok Sabha begins.
7/30/1933Gandhiji informs the Government of Bombay of his decision to march from Ahmedabad to Ras with 33 followers to revive Civil Disobedience movement.
2/12/1995Maramon Centenary Convention, (the biggest Christian gathering in Asia) begins in Kerala.
11/18/1960Raghunath Chaudhary, famous natural poet of Assam, passed away.
12/17/1830Simon Bolivar, great dynamic leader and social reformer, died.
12/17/1830Sher Shah defeated Humayun for the second time at Hardoi in U.P. in the battle of Kanauj.
6/19/1947Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay.
2/10/1961P. L. Deshpande played first solo drama 'Batatyachi Chawl'.
6/21/1999Leander Paes was seeded number one in double's ranking. This was his highest double ranking.