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Historical Event on 4/11/1997

10-month-old Deve Gowde govt. at the centre voted out of power. 292 voting against the motion of confidence in Lok Sabha, 158 for it, 6 abstaining.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/3/1859A length of 119 miles of line was laid in the North from Allahabad to Kanpur.
3/22/1906Bhagwant Bhikaji Samant, educationalist, was born.
2/12/1928Bardoli Satyagrah (Gujarat) was led by Vallabhbhai Patel against the Bombay government's decision to hike the revenue on cotton by 22 percent while its prices declined Internationally. Ultimately the govenment quashed the hike.
7/25/1958Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, inaugurated.
5/25/1877Sir John Lawrence--passenger steamer of McLean & Co. of Calcutta--sank near the coastline of Orrisa in a storm. This ship carried 732 passengers.
3/22/1793Lord Cornwallis promulgated permanent settlement in Bengal and Bihar to fix the revenue amounts once and for all to be paid by the zamindars every year.
9/30/1881Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, famous musician, social worker and Governor of the Imperial Bank of India, was born at Kanadukattam, Tamil Nadu.
4/14/1990J&K Assembly dissolved.
8/18/1800Fort William College was established at Calcutta.
12/13/2000Vikram Sood is appointed new RAW Chief.