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Historical Event on 8/11/2000

Koneru Humpy was crowned the youngest British Ladies chess champion at the end of eleventh and final round in the Smith and Williamson British chess championship in Somerset.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/16/2000Indian Airlines wins the 60th National Hockey championship in Jammu.
5/31/1977Major Premchand and Naik Nima Dorji Sherpa, in the team on Indian Army Treckers, reached the peak of Kanchenjunga. They were amongst the first Indians to reach this peak.
7/18/1908Fourteen thousand mill workers go on strike at Bombay.
3/29/1849Maharaj Dulip Singh left the throne of Punjab that once belonged to his late father Ranjit Singh and was then occupied by the East India Company. The Britishers had captured it after defeating the Sikh Army at Amritsar.
9/27/1977Sanjiva Reddy was elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha. Government revokes the external emergency promulgated on December 3, 1971.
3/28/1994Leaders attack trade protectionism.
9/26/1998Sachin Tendulkar make a record 127 runs against Zimbabwe at Calcutta.
10/6/1927The first independent film processing laboratory, Atmanand Laboratory, was set up by Narayanrao alias Dhanjibhai K. Desai at Bombay.
7/6/1992R. Janakiraman Committee estimates involvement of Rs. 3543 crore in the security scam.
11/21/1985Ramnath Kenny, cricketer (5 Tests for India 1958-60), passed away.