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Historical Event on 03/11/1399

While returning to his country, Timur Lung looted and destroyed Delhi and parts of North India including Hardwar, the Ganga pilgrimage town, and crossed Sindhu River.

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2/16/1962General Election ( 3rd) of India begins.
10/19/1983Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler.
6/12/1997Sitaram Kesri elected president of Congress I (6224 votes. Sharad Pawar-888; Rajesh Pilot-354).
9/10/1920Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal.
1/16/1942Jawaharlal Nehru succeeds Gandhi as head of Indian National Congress.
11/15/1911First meeting of the governing body of the Indian Research Fund Association (IRFA) was held at the Plague Laboratory, Bombay, under the Chairmanship of Sir Harcourt Butler.
10/21/1999B. R. Chopra, filmmaker, gets the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
4/6/1992Nagpur edition of Marathi newspaper 'Loksatta' was started.
4/12/1752Agreement to save the king between Shinde and Holkar.
1/10/1986Pakistan decides to lift 8-year-old ban on private trade with India.