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Historical Event on 4/11/1984

Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth which carried 3 cosmonauts including the first Indian Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma, to Salyut 7.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/17/1865Raobahadur Govind Sakharam Sardesai `Riyasatkar' was born.
11/9/1997Poonam Chibber, Miss Canada, crowned seventh Miss India Worldwide.
5/9/1919Ram Kumar Gupta, great industrialist, was born at Delhi.
4/26/1995Indian Newspaper Society (INS) calls off stir plans following Government conceding a major demand of the newspaper industry by putting newsprint on the Open General Licence (OGL) and abolish the condition requiring newspapers to buy two tonnes of indigenous newsprint in order to import one tonne.
10/10/1952US mediator Frank Graham told the U.N. Security Council that there was a possibility of war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir.
4/1/2000India wins four golds in the under-14 Youth chess championship in Teheran.
3/12/1988After 58 years in the commemoration of Dandi March, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi performed the 32 kms Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram.
7/10/1924Johannes B van Heutsz, Governor General of Dutch Indies (1904-09), died at the age of 73.
3/21/1993The 68 km Mangalore-Udupi stretch of the west coast Konkan rail line opened by the PM.
2/22/1997India outplays Poland in the final hockey `Test' and win series 2-0.