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Events for April 11

11-April-1290	Mu'izzu'd-din Kaiqubad was killed in his bed. He was proved to be an inefficient ruler.
11-April-1856	Lievens Constantly, Flemish missionary in India, was born.
11-April-1887	Jamini Roy, famous artist, was born.
11-April-1906	K.V. Jagannathan, great Hindi writer and journalist, was born at Krishnarayapuram,Tamil Nadu.
11-April-1913	Iron ropes bridge known as 'Laxman Jhula' was constructed over Ganga at Hrishikesh .
11-April-1930	Pandit Motilal Nehru renamed 'Anand Bhuvan' as 'Swaraj Bhawan' and handed it over to the people.
11-April-1931	Mahendranath Yeshwant Gupte, cricket test umpire for 1 test in 1984-85, was born at Mumbai.
11-April-1937	Ramnath Krishnan, well known Indian Tennis player, was born.
11-April-1942	All-India Congress party rejects British offer of dominion status at New Delhi.
11-April-1952	Treaty between France and India, transferring the former French settlement of Chandranagar to India, is ratified by the National Assembly, Paris. It was the last formal step in completing the process of sovereignty.
11-April-1964	Communist Party of India was divided in two parts. Firstly known as Communist Party of India [CPI], its second fragmentation was named as Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)]. This division was on ideological differences at the international level.
11-April-1984	Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth which carried 3 cosmonauts including the first Indian Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma, to Salyut 7.
11-April-1992	Marathi cinema's Bhaichandra Govind Pendharkar gets Phalke Award.
11-April-1992	Dr. M.M.Thomas, Nagaland Governor, removed from office.
11-April-1993	Tamil Nadu and Karnataka decide to form a joint task force to nab Veerappan and announces a reward of Rs. 40 lakh for his capture.
11-April-1993	Laxmanrao Madhav Bhide, senior freedom fighter and history expert, passed away.
11-April-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.
11-April-1999	The DRDO has successfully flight tested AGNI-11 with a range of 2000 km, using solid propellant rocket motors in both stages and rail mobile launcher system from its new launch complex in the Orissa Coast. With this launch the country has reached the point of operationalisation of AGNI-11 as a weapon system. (1-1-2000).
11-April-1999	A.K.A. Abdul Samad (72), general secretary of IUML and State unit president, died in Chennai.
11-April-1999	Chetan Baboor and Poulomi Ghatak won the men's and women's titles resp. in the India Cup table tennis in Mumbai.
11-April-1999	India successfully test-fires the extended range ''Agni-II'' missile, bridging a key gap in its minimum nuclear deterrent profile.
11-April-1999	Paes-Bhupathi won the doubles in the in the ATP-Gold Flake Open in Chennai.
11-April-1999	Tamil Nadu men, Railways women emerged National Volleyball League champions in Triprayar.
11-April-2000	Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'.