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Historical Event on 7/11/1994

Delhi IG (prisons) Kiran Bedi wins Magsaysay Award for public service.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/24/1976Burmah Shell, a private oil company, was nationalised and renamed as Bharat Refineries.
11/7/1862Bahadurshah Jafar -II died at Rangoon in British prision.
4/13/1999D. Sripada Rao, former Speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, is shot dead by People's War Group naxalites near Annaram village in Karimnagar district.
8/15/1950Earthquake measuring 8.6 on Richter Scale hits Assam in north eastern India claiming 11,000 lives.
11/9/1992Chandralekha resigns from IAS and joins Tamizhaga Wellatchi Iyyakkam (Tamil Movement for Good Government) led by Dr. Subramaniam Swamy.
6/23/1757The Battle of Plassey started between Robert Clive, incharge of British army, and Nawab of Bengal, Siraj -Ud -Daula. In this battle Robert Clive won control of Bengal.
10/27/1973The first Ladies Police Station started functioning at Calicut in Kerala.
3/18/1974Buddhadev Basu, modern Bengali poet, story writer, playwright and critic, passed away.
4/8/1897Henrich Von Stephan, famous General Postal Union and freedom fighter, passed away.
5/4/1998India is placed on the US Special 309 watch list.