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Historical Event on 8/11/2000
Koneru Humpy was crowned the youngest British Ladies chess champion at the end of eleventh and final round in the Smith and Williamson British chess championship in Somerset.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/29/1849 | Maharaj Dulip Singh left the throne of Punjab that once belonged to his late father Ranjit Singh and was then occupied by the East India Company. The Britishers had captured it after defeating the Sikh Army at Amritsar. |
| 5/7/1958 | Acharya Kripalani elected leader of a new opposition group in the Lok Sabha. |
| 1/11/1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Prime Minister (1964-66), passed away at Tashkent, U.S.S.R. at 1:32, age 61. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously. |
| 6/18/1926 | Bhishma Singh Chauhan, great author, was born at Naglajula (U.P). |
| 12/27/1901 | Gandhiji moves resolution on South Africa at Congress. |
| 2/1/1942 | No. 4 Squadron of the IAF was born in the war at Peshawar. The Squadron was first equipped with Lysander aircraft. The Second World War was in its third year and Japanese forces were advancing towards India's eastern frontiers. |
| 1/16/1896 | Jaideva Singh, famous musician and educationist, was born Shohratgarh, U.P. |
| 9/26/1932 | Dr. Manmohan Singh, former finance minister, economist and Governor of R.B.I., was born. |
| 12/15/1999 | Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, arrives in Berlin to attend G-20 meet. |
| 7/1/1913 | Kumarmanglam Parasshiv Prabhakar, former Chief of Indian Army, was born. |
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