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Historical Event on 7/11/2000

Amrita Pritam, noted litterateur, honoured with the highest award for Punjabi literature for the century:""Shatabdi Samman"".

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/15/1947Issues with Jinnah a joint appeal for communal peace.
1/10/1997The second leg of the Indian Satellite circuit held in Ahmedabad.
1/10/1997Jesuit father and first Englishman S.J.Thomas Stephens arrived at Goa in a Portuguese ship. He settled here and died in 1619.
11/17/1994North Eastern Council decides to include Sikkim in the Council.
9/26/1911Prat Kumar Sinha, cricket Test empire for 2 tests from 1948-53, was born in Bengal.
2/10/1691Job Charnock established the first English factory in Calcutta.
4/12/1967U. Thant,UN Secretary General, receives the first Nehru Award for international understanding.
2/26/1996Sahib Singh Verma sworn in as Delhi's second CM.
3/23/1968Atul Satish Wassan, cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1989-90), was born in Delhi.
5/6/1946Bhulabhai Desai, great politician, passed away.