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Historical Event on 7/11/1973

India frees 438 Pakistani prisoners on medical grounds.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/12/1979Heavy rains resulted in bursting of a dam thus causing floods in Moorvi and Lilapur in Gujarat, killing over 1,335 people.
10/17/1996President's rule reimposed in U.P.
11/16/1713Chhatrapati Shahu appointed Balaji Vishwanath, a very remarkable man in Maratha history, as 'Peshwa'.
1/7/1859The Bahadur Shah II case trial was started, which ended on March 29.
1/22/1986Satwant Singh, Balbir Singh and Kehar Singh, all sikhs, were sentenced to death for the assassination of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
3/3/1839Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, was born at Navsari near Surat, Gujarat. He started cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world.
1/17/1923Rangey Raghav, famous hindi writer, was born.
10/25/1932Pearless' investment company was established.
12/12/1992The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad.
4/15/2000Baichung Bhutia became the first Asian-player to score a goal in the professional English game.