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Historical Event on 7/11/1998

The Government reduces customs duty on edible oils under the Open General Licence from 20 to 10 per cent.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/14/1812Lord Charles Caning, Governor General and Viceroy of India (1856-1862), was born.
3/18/1922Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause.
6/7/1974Mahesh Bhupathi, Tennis star, was born. He is the winner of French Open 1997 (mixed doubles) and 1999 (doubles) and Wimbledon 1999.
12/9/1993Virbhadra Singh sworn in as Congress CM of Himachal Pradesh.
3/19/1954The first helicopter S-55 arrived at Bombay by sea.
11/16/1993Kashmir's 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants' surrender.
1/29/1953Dattatreya Balkrishna Kalelkar ""Kaka Saheb"" was appointed as the Chairman of the Backward Classes Commission.
12/3/19843,000 people died and more than 50,000 people were badly affected when they inhaled poisonous toxic gas emission from the Union Carbide plant. This event is better known as ""the Bhopal Gas Tragedy"", the biggest industrial disaster that occured in India.
12/15/1976Daily newspaper ""Lokmat"" published it's first Jalgaon edit
8/27/1910Mother Teresa, [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], nobel Prize awardee and social worker, was born in Skopje, Macedonia in Yugoslavia.