Year 1784
Treaty between the British and Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore.
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11 May: 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 May.
Year 1857
National uprising of 1857 – Indians captured Delhi from the British.
Year 1878
First meeting of Marathi book writers.
Year 1867
Luxembourg gained independence.
Year 1888
Rao Bahadur Vaddedar conferred the title of Mahatma on the great social reformer Jyotiba Phule at Koliwada in Mandvi, Mumbai.
Year 1920
The decision of Oxford University to give women access to graduation
Year 1949
Israel joined the United Nations.
Year 1949
Siam officially changed its name to Thailand for the second time.
Year 1951
President Rajendra Prasad inaugurated the newly constructed Somnath Temple.
Year 1956
The Gold Coast was declared free from British rule. The Gold Coast, which we know today as Ghana, was signed by the British government on 6 March 1957 for its independence.
Year 1987
President's rule imposed in Punjab.
1996, 11th May: Mount Everest disaster – 8 people who climbed Mount Everest on the same day died.
Year 1998
Twenty-four years later, India again conducted three successful nuclear tests, including a hydrogen bomb-making device, in the Pokhran desert region of Rajasthan.
Year 1999
Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case: The Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence on four of the 26 accused, life imprisonment to three and acquitted the remaining 19 people.
Born 1888
Asaf Ali, lawyer, nationalist, writer and connoisseur of music and arts, was born.
Born 1895
Jiddu Krishnamurti, an Indian speaker, and writer.
Born 1904
Salvador Dali, a Spanish surrealist artist.
Born 1911
Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon, an Indian poet of Malayalam literature.
Born 1912
Saadat Hasan Manto, a colonial Indian and Pakistani writer, playwright, and author.
Born 1918
Mrinalini Vikram Sarabhai, an Indian classical dancer, choreographer, and instructor.
Born 1918
Richard Feynman, an American theoretical physicist.
Born 1930
Ganesh Narayan R, great Industrialist, was born.
Born 1950
Sadashiv Amrapurkar, an Indian actor.
Died 1871
Sir John Herschel, an English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, experimental photographer.
Died 1885
Krishnamohan Bandopadhyay, leader, essay writer and journalist of Bengal, passed away.
Died 1889
John Cadbury, a Quaker and English proprietor and founder of Cadbury.
Died 2009
Admiral Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda, the 8th Chief of the Naval Staff.