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Historical Event on 11/11/1793
English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/27/1973 | The first Ladies Police Station started functioning at Calicut in Kerala. |
| 7/7/1917 | Ram Subhagsingh, great politician and former Rail Minister, was born. |
| 1/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen, Economist, is sworn in new Master of the Trinity College. He is the first Asian to head a Cambridge College. |
| 1/1/1983 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Communications Year"". |
| 6/8/1897 | Manindranath Basu, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 3/19/1998 | E.M.S. Namboodiripad, veteran communist leader of CPM and Kerala's first Chief Minister, passed away in Thiruvananthapuram at the age of 88. |
| 2/6/1932 | Dorabji Jamshetji Tata, great industrialist, passed away. |
| 1/31/1963 | Peacock declared as National Bird of India. |
| 3/31/1992 | The new five-year Export-Import policy relaxes restrictions. |
| 5/1/1908 | Praful Chaki committed suicide after he threw a bomb on Judge Kingsford of Mujaffarpur, killing two inocent women. |
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