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Historical Event on 11/7/1997

RBI Governor Dr. Chakravarti Rangarajan appointed new Governor of Andhra Pradesh. Dr. Bimal Jalan, Member-Secretary, Planning Commission, will take over as RBI Governor.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/5/1999India's Aarthie Ramaswamy won the girl's under-18 crown in the World Youth Chess Festival in Oropesa, Spain. Koneru Humpy bagged the silver in girls' under-12.
10/15/1946Victor Banerjee, actor (A Passage to India), was born in Calcutta, India.
1/1/1932Publication of Marathi Newspaper 'Sakal' started.
10/19/1983Union Government takes over the management of 13 textile undertakings in Bombay; marathon strike in cotton textile industry ends.
11/10/1922S. K. Raghunath Rao, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1960-67, was born in Karnataka.
8/10/1927Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu, first Indian astronomer, litterateur and Urdu poet, was born at Madras.
12/30/1935Lord Reading, former Viceroy and Governor General of India, died at the age of 76 at UK.
5/12/1999Arunachal Pradesh Governor refuses to quit.
10/2/1929Mahatma Gandhi made the Navjivan publication a charitable trust
1/14/1969Madras State renamed Tamil Nadu.