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Historical Event on 6/11/1921
Snehlata, social reformer and politician, was born at Mathura, U.P.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/26/1992 | Rs. 245 crore relief in customs, excise duties announced. |
| 10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel. |
| 4/21/1996 | Sanjay Thapar of the IAF (leader) becomes first Indian to parachute down to geometric North pole and unfurl the flag. |
| 12/28/1977 | Sumitranandan Pant, famous Hindi poet and literaeur, died. |
| 1/17/1905 | Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar was born at Dahanu near Bombay. He discovered the shortest possible routes to solve mathematical problems. In 1927, he won the wrangler R. P. Paranjpe Mathematical Prize for an Original Piece of work in mathematics. He discovered 'Kaprekar Constant' in 1946. It is the number ""6174"". The constant 6174 is arrived at and this number then generates itself into one set of numbers called ""self numbers"" that is also known by his name. Kaprekar passed away in 1988. |
| 10/12/1952 | Hanif Mohammad scores twin 100s vs New Zealand. |
| 4/15/1932 | Suresh Shridhar Bhat, famous poet, was born. |
| 1/14/1995 | The 5th Pay Commission suggests trimming of bureaucracy. |
| 6/22/1975 | National Emergency was declared and censorship introduced. |
| 5/5/1916 | Giani Zail Singh, President of India, was born in Sandhwan village, Punjab. |
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