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Historical Event on 11/8/1992

Mother Teresa, nobel prize winner, was presented 'Bharat Ki Mahan Suputri' award.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/2/1999Home Minister L. K. Advani said that the BJP was ready to provide letters of support.
3/13/1947Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as Viceroy of British India. He ruled upto 14th August, 1947.
7/16/1931C. T. Studd, 69, died. He was an English missionary, one of the 'Cambridge Seven,' who worked on the mission field in China, India and Central Africa.
4/23/1913Dhananjay Vithal Keer, famous biogropher, was born.
11/3/1988Indian armed forces mounted special operations to help the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives and dealt with the 150 sea-borne invaders who stormed Maldivian Capital, Male and soughted to overthrow the democratically elected Government of the Maldives.
10/28/1811Yashwantrao Holkar, a diplomat of Peshwa kingdom, died.
9/16/1990Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War.
10/28/1997Dr. V. Doreswamy Iyengar (77), Veena maestro, household name among Carnatic music lovers, passed away in Bangalore.
12/28/1688Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolishes all temples (around 1,000) in Mathura. (During their reign, Muslim rulers had destroyed roughly 60,000 Hindu temples throughout India, constructing mosques on 3,000 sites).
10/15/1676King of England permitted the East India Company to mint the Rupee and Paisa coins at Bombay.