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Historical Event on 11/9/1992
Chandralekha resigns from IAS and joins Tamizhaga Wellatchi Iyyakkam (Tamil Movement for Good Government) led by Dr. Subramaniam Swamy.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/1/1997 | Viswanathan Anand wins the Credit Suisse Masters chess tournament in Beil. |
| 1/11/1991 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (1896-1995). |
| 2/17/1931 | Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"". |
| 12/4/1924 | Gateway of India was inagurated by Lord Riding. |
| 10/6/1779 | Elphinston, historian and administrator of Mumbai province, was born. |
| 3/26/1969 | Romesh Chandra, secretary general of the World Peace Council, receives the Lenin prize |
| 7/11/1897 | Sibnath Banerjee, great social worker, freedom fighter and leader, was born in village Brahman Rangdia, Khulna district. |
| 11/15/1989 | Test debut of Sachin Tendulkar and Waqar Yunus at Karachi. |
| 5/12/1915 | Rash Behari Bose, revolutionary leader, left India by boarding a Japanese steamer ''Sanuki Maru'' under assumed name of P. N. Tagore to dodge the British forces. |
| 9/30/1999 | India successfully test-fired its multi-target surface-to-air missile 'Akash'. |
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