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On This Day 11 April | Today Special Day
On This Day 11 April | Today Special Day
What Happened On This Day in History
- 1999: International Labor Organization was established.
- 1921: The first live commentary on Radio Per Sport is published.
- 1930: A 124-meter swinging bridge made of steel wires in Rishikesh was opened to the public, it was named Laxman Jhula.
- 1964: The Indian Communities Party split into two.
- 1970: America’s Apollo 30 spacecraft left for the lunar mission.
- 1976: The first Apple-1 computer designed to survive Steam is released.
- 1983: Ben Kingsley’s film Gandhi and Oscar Award.
- 1999: Test flight was carried out with Agin 2 missile.
- 1911: Indian-American writer Jhumpa L. Lahiri receives the Pulitzer Prize for her first work, ‘Interpreter of Maladies.
- 2019: India became the world’s largest democracy with 900 million eligible voters in the world’s largest selection on the first day of voting.
- 2019: Israel’s Patient spacecraft, the first privately funded mission to the Moon, crashes.
- 2019: Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is arrested by the military in Khartoum after 29 years in the week.
- 2020: Brazil becomes the first country in the Southern Hemisphere to report more than 1000 deaths from COVID-19, with 1,056 deaths and 19,638 cases.
Famous Borns and Deaths On This Day
- 1827: India’s great thinker, social worker, and revolutionary Jyoti Bai Phule was born.
- 1869: Kasturba Gandhi was born.
- 1887: Indian artist Jamini Roy was born.
- 1907: Ramnath Krishna, the Indian tennis player, was born.
- 1977: Famous litterateur Phanishwarnath Renu passed away.
- 2009: Vishnu Prabhakar, a famous Hindi litterateur, playwright, and story writer, passed away.
- 2010: President Lech Kaczynski of Poland dies in a plane crash.
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