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Historical Event on 11/8/1966

Rameshwari Nehru, freedom fighter and social worker, died at 80 years in New Delhi. She founded ""Stree-Darpan"" Magazine in 1909 and was president of ""Indian Women Association"". She had received Lenin Peace Prize in 1961 for her humanitarian services for upliftment of the down

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12/29/1885A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.
5/7/195081 people died in a rail crash at Patna. A sabotage was suspected.
2/8/1943Subhashchandra Bose started his journey to Japan from Kiel along with his secretary Major Abid Hassan in a submarine.
7/3/1975Virendrakishor Roy Chaudhary, famous music director, passed away.
10/9/1945British troops occupy Andaman in Gulf of Bengal.
4/1/1976Television was separated from radio, and Doordarshan Corporation was established.
4/18/1959India, Pakistan sign one-year pact on Indus River irrigation.
6/9/1997Portfolio changes were effected by I K Gujral in Union Cabinet.
9/5/1659Queen Saibai, wife of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died.