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Historical Event on 6/11/2000
Rajesh Pilot, Congress(I) leader and former Union Minister, died in a road accident in his home constituency, Dausa.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
10/19/1920 | Prakashchandra Sethi, former central minister, was born. |
7/14/1992 | The Lok Sabha passes a bill seeking to confer on the President the powers of the Legislature of J&K. |
1/1/1914 | Dhirendra Nath Mukherji, social worker, was born at Bankura, West Bengal. |
10/31/1955 | The Prime Minister inaugurated the Cooperative Milk Producers' Union factory at Anand, Gujarat. |
3/16/1901 | Pralhad Balacharya Gajendragadkar, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born. |
7/11/2000 | Amrita Pritam, noted litterateur, honoured with the highest award for Punjabi literature for the century:""Shatabdi Samman"". |
12/21/1881 | Pundit Sunder Lal Sharma, freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Rajim, M.P. |
1/10/1693 | Job Charnock, founder of Calcutta, died in the same city and he was laid to rest. |
1/17/1905 | Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar was born at Dahanu near Bombay. He discovered the shortest possible routes to solve mathematical problems. In 1927, he won the wrangler R. P. Paranjpe Mathematical Prize for an Original Piece of work in mathematics. He discovered 'Kaprekar Constant' in 1946. It is the number ""6174"". The constant 6174 is arrived at and this number then generates itself into one set of numbers called ""self numbers"" that is also known by his name. Kaprekar passed away in 1988. |
4/20/1973 | Rioting over food shortages ends after three days in Nagpur. |
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