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Historical Event on 4/11/1942

All-India Congress party rejects British offer of dominion status at New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/29/1983Piloo Mody, veteran Parliament member and senior leader of Janata Party, passed away.
3/14/1994Narsinha Rao, Prime Minister, arrives in London for a 4-day official visit.
11/29/1959Govind Sakharam Serdesai, Jagirdar Raobahadur, passed away.
12/16/1867Amy Carmichael, Scotch Irish missionary, was born. She went to India in 1895 under the Zenana Missionary Society, remaining there without furlough until her death 56 years later. An invalid during her last 20 years, she worked to rescue children from the Hindus.
6/18/1993Advani takes over as party President.
2/9/1951The first census of free India of enumeration work was started.
4/1/1902Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, cricketer, (one Test, India v England 1934, scored 19 & 0), was born in Bombay.
2/9/1757In a treaty between Lord Clive and Siraj Ud Daulah, Clive was authorised to safe guard (Killa Bandi) and open mint at Calcutta. Nawab had paid compensation to British Army.
8/18/1990Pandit Narayan Chaturvedi, senior Hindi litterateur, died.
1/14/1994The first Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Centenary Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research, instituted by ICMR in 1991-92, was announced in 1994 (Dr. G. Padamanabhan, Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is the first recipient of this Award).