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Historical Event on 2/11/1861
Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay was born in Khanyan village of Bengal.
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| 8/26/1874 | Ishwar Sharan Munshi, politician and philosopher, was born. |
| 3/25/1933 | Vasantrao Gowarikar, space scientist, was born. |
| 6/6/1986 | Militant Sikhs in Amritsar call for the murder of Surjit Singh Barnala, Chief Minister of Punjab and J.F. Ribeiro, the Chief of Police. |
| 8/9/1999 | India's Manisha Malhotra won the $10,000 ITF women's circuit tournament at Harrisonburg, Virginia for her maiden tour title. |
| 8/17/1761 | William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till his death and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people. |
| 2/12/2000 | 17 persons, including 12 police personnel, die as naxalites strike terror during the first phase of polling for the Bihar Assembly. |
| 4/1/1878 | Calcutta Museum was opened for general public. |
| 7/22/1678 | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj won the fort of Vellore. |
| 10/31/1999 | Efforts to restore rail and telecom links on a war footing. |
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