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Historical Event on 11/11/1998
V. M. Devaraj (78), DMK leader and former MLA, passed away after a brief illness. He represented Vellore in 1980, 1984 and 1989. He was a close associate of the DMK founder, C. N. Annadurai.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/14/1910 | Upendranath Ashok, noted writer, was born. |
| 11/7/1867 | Madam Marie Sklodowska, great scientist, professor and Nobel Prize awardee, was born in Poland. |
| 1/26/2000 | Mr. K. Vadivel Raj gets the 1999 Kabir Puraskar for rescuing 11 persons of another community during caste violence in September 1998 in a village in Tamil Nadu. |
| 11/15/1817 | Battle of Yerwada. |
| 6/11/1931 | Purushottam Vishnu Behre, great editor, story and novel writer, was born. |
| 8/9/1999 | India's Manisha Malhotra won the $10,000 ITF women's circuit tournament at Harrisonburg, Virginia for her maiden tour title. |
| 8/2/1987 | Vishwanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win the World Junior Chess championship. |
| 11/16/1990 | Allahabad High Court stays UP Government's decision to increase reservation quota for Backward Classes. |
| 7/2/1938 | Chandra K. N. Patel was born at Baramati near Pune. In 1974, he was the youngest scientist to be elected to the US National Academy of Sciences. Besides, he is the recipient of the Ballantine Medal, The Worykin Award and The lamme Medal. Chandra K. N. Patel is the Executive Director of one of the divisions of the AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA. |
| 4/24/1959 | Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie. |
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