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Historical Event on 8/11/1999
Ramnath Parkar, former Indian opening batsman, died in Mumbai.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/25/1997 | Cabinet approved the draft of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) which was to replace the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA). |
| 4/20/1992 | U. K. Kanitkar, famous scientist, and professor, passed away. |
| 11/6/1931 | Chithira Tirunal Bala Ramavarma, ascended throne and ruled state of Travancore as Maharaja, passed away. |
| 10/28/1947 | Sheikh Mohammad Abdulla invited to form an interim government in J&K. |
| 9/29/2000 | The Government raises the prices of petroleum products across- the-board while cutting import and excise duties on crude oil, diesel and motor spirit (petrol). |
| 8/30/1991 | Dr. P. J. Devras, friend of snakes, passed away. |
| 11/10/1698 | East India Company purchased Calcutta, which had not more than a village at that time. |
| 7/3/1985 | Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM, AVSM, VM., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1988. |
| 9/10/1920 | Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal. |
| 12/14/1924 | Ranbir Raj Kapoor, famous film producer, director and actor, was born. |
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