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Historical Event on 7/11/1994

Delhi IG (prisons) Kiran Bedi wins Magsaysay Award for public service.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/4/1909Prabhakar Padhye, modern Marathi litterateur, was born.
9/4/1987Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old girl, commits Sati (burning herself in her husband's funeral pyre) in Deorala in Rajasthan.
7/4/1986Sunil Gavaskar celebrated his 115th Test in cricket at Edgbaston.
7/3/1661Portugal gives Tanger & Bombay to English King Charles II.
4/24/1918Durgaprasad Dhar, former Vice President of Planning Commission, was born.
10/24/1657Kalyan and Bhiwandi came under the rule of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
8/22/1877Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great painter, philosopher, linguist, critic, art researcher in the East, was born at Colombo in Sri Lanka.
6/23/1997India and Pakistan reach accord on joint working groups to address outstanding issues including Kashmir and Siachen.
7/5/2000Rachita Mistry breaks P.T. Usha's long-standing record in 100m (11.39s) clocking 11.26s in the National circuit meet in Bangalore.
9/29/1914Japanese vessel 'Kamagata Maru' reached Baj Baj near Calcutta from Vancouver carrying Indian revolutionaries.