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Historical Event on 8/11/2000
Usha Mehta, great Gandhian, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/25/1898 | Dalpatrai (Dalpatram Dahyabhai Trawadi), modern Gujrati poet, passed away. |
| 1/29/1853 | Madhusudan Rao, modern writer in Oria language, was born. |
| 9/5/1979 | Earl of Mountbatten's funeral held in Burma. |
| 2/27/1941 | Paddy Ashton, first leader of Britain's Social and Liberal Democrat Party, was born in New Delhi, India. |
| 7/15/1986 | India protests against China's intrusion of six to seven km into the Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh. |
| 11/19/1993 | Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development awarded to Czech President Vaclav Havel. |
| 12/6/1987 | MiG-29, re-christened `Baaz', inducted into the Indian Air Force. |
| 2/14/1925 | Mohan Dhariya, politician and nature lover, was born. |
| 4/18/1959 | India, Pakistan sign one-year pact on Indus River irrigation. |
| 12/28/1977 | Sumitranandan Pant, famous Hindi poet and literaeur, died. |
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