Year 1290
Mu'izzu'd-din Kaiqubad was killed in his bed. He was proved to be an inefficient ruler
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11 April: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 11 April.
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Year 1913
Iron ropes bridge known as 'Laxman Jhula' was constructed over Ganga at Hrishikesh .
Year 1919
Establishment of the International Labor Organization.
Year 1930
Laxman cradle made of steel wires opened to the public in Hrishikesh.
Year 1930
Pandit Motilal Nehru renamed 'Anand Bhuvan' as 'Swaraj Bhawan' and handed it over to the people.
Year 1942
All-India Congress party rejects British offer of dominion status at New Delhi.
Year 1952
Treaty between France and India, transferring the former French settlement of Chandranagar to India, is ratified by the National Assembly, Paris. It was the last formal step in completing the process of sovereignty.
Year 1955
The Air India Kashmir Princess (a chartered Lockheed L-749A Constellation aircraft owned by Air India) was bombed and crashed in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
Year 1964
Communist Party of India was divided in two parts. Firstly known as Communist Party of India [CPI], its second fragmentation was named as Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)]. This division was on ideological differences at the international level.
Year 1970
The US launched Apollo 13 program for the moon campaign.
Year 1979
Ugandan dictator Idi Amin left power.
Year 1976
Apple’s Apple 1 computer was created.
Year 1986
Halley’s Comet approached Earth at a distance of 6.5 billion kilometers.
Year 1992
Marathi cinema's Bhaichandra Govind Pendharkar gets Phalke Award.
Year 1992
Dr. M.M.Thomas, Nagaland Governor, removed from office.
Year 1999
Successfully tested Agni-2 missile
Year 1993
Tamil Nadu and Karnataka decide to form a joint task force to nab Veerappan and announces a reward of Rs. 40 lakh for his capture.
Year 1999
The DRDO has successfully flight tested AGNI-11 with a range of 2000 km, using solid propellant rocket motors in both stages and rail mobile launcher system from its new launch complex in the Orissa Coast. With this launch the country has reached the point of operationalisation of AGNI-11 as a weapon system. (1-1-2000).
Year 1999
India successfully test-fires the extended range ''Agni-II'' missile, bridging a key gap in its minimum nuclear deterrent profile.
Year 1999
Tamil Nadu men, Railways women emerged National Volleyball League champions in Triprayar.
Year 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'.
Year 2011
Indian-American writer Jhumpa Lahiri was given the Pulitzer Prize for her debut work ‘Interpreter of Maladies’.
Born 1755
James Parkinson, an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist.
Born 1827
Jyotirao Govindrao Phule, an Indian social activist, thinker, anti-caste social reformer, and writer.
Born 1869
Kasturba Gandhi, an Indian political activist. She is the wife of Mohandas Gandhi.
Born 1856
Lievens Constantly, Flemish missionary in India, was born.
Born 1887
Jamini Roy, an Indian painter.
Born 1892
Mithuben Petit, one of the women pioneer Indian independence activists.
Born 1904
K. L. Saigal, an Indian singer, and actor.
Born 1906
K.V. Jagannathan, great Hindi writer and journalist, was born at Krishnarayapuram,Tamil Nadu.
Born 1908
Masaru Ibuka, a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony.
Born 1931
Mahendranath Yeshwant Gupte, cricket test umpire for 1 test in 1984-85, was born at Mumbai.
Born 1937
Ramnath Krishnan, well known Indian Tennis player, was born.
Born 1951
Rohini Hattangadi, an Indian actress.
Born 1977
Nidhi Razdan, an Indian journalist.
Died 1977
Phanishwar Nath Renu, an Indian writer of Hindi literature.
Died 1993
Laxmanrao Madhav Bhide, senior freedom fighter and history expert, passed away.
Died 1999
A.K.A. Abdul Samad (72), general secretary of IUML and State unit president, died in Chennai.
Died 2001
Kamal Ranadive, an Indian biomedical researcher.
Died 2007
Kurt Vonnegut Jr, an American writer.
Died 2009
Vishnu Prabhakar, an Indian-Hindi writer.
Died 2015
Hanut Singh, a General Officer in the Indian Army.