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Historical Event on 6/11/1907
Shantilal Jivanlal Gandhi, famous Hindi writer, was born in Mehmadabad, Gujarat .
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| 12/31/1941 | Milkha Singh Govindsingh Amritsar, cricketer (brother of Kripal Singh, Indian batsman in 4 Tests), was born in Madras. |
| 9/16/1931 | Political prisoners Tarkeshwar Dutta and Santosh Mitra were shot by an officer at Hijli detention camp near Kharagpur. They were arrested for attending the Hijli meeting. |
| 4/11/2000 | Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'. |
| 10/9/1963 | Saifuddin Azizuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter, President of Punjab and the first Indian to win the Lenin Award for International Peace, died. |
| 10/9/1963 | Zahir Al-Din Muhammad Babur Shah, founder of Mughal dynasty, passed away at the age of 48 at Dhaulpur. |
| 7/5/1992 | Centre scraps octroi in Union Territories. |
| 6/5/1998 | Ali Sardar Jafri, Urdu writer, is presented the Jnanpeeth award for 1997. |
| 4/23/1994 | Ibrahim Sulaiman Sait, former Indian Union Muslim League president, floats a new party - the Indian National League. |
| 11/7/1907 | Murlidhar Shankar Deshpande, journalist and social worker, was born at Kadanachi Girvi Phaltan, Maharashtra. |
| 2/19/1974 | Bombay High Oil stock was found in the sea near Mumbai. |
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