History, Birthdays and Historic Events of 11 January-

• January 11, 1613 – Emperor Jahangir permitted East India Company to establish factories in Surat and the first British factory was established under Thomas Aldworth.
  

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• January 11, 1859 – Lord Curzon, Governor General and Viceroy, was born.
  

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• January 11, 1944 – Shibu Soren, Indian politician, president of JMM political party, born on 11 January 1944 who condemned for murder in December 2006, then acquitted in August 2007.
  

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• January 11, 1954 – Kailash Sharma, famously known as Kailash Satyarthi, born in the Vidisha district of central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on January 11, 1954 is an engineer, academic, and activist. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.
  

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• January 11, 1955 – Production of Newsprint paper factory started for the first time in India.
  

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• January 11, 1966 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Prime Minister (1964-66), passed away at Tashkent, U.S.S.R. at 1:32, age 61. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously.
  

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• January 11, 1966 – Gulzarilal Nanda was appointed as the acting Prime Minister of India who held this position till January 24, 1966.
  

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• January 11, 1972 – East Pakistan renamed itself Bangladesh.
  

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• January 11, 1973 – Rahul Dravid, cricket batsman, was born in Indore on 11 January 1973.
  

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• January 11, 1986 – The Naval Dockyard Bombay celebrates its 250th Anniversary.
  

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• January 11, 1986 – The first MiG-27M fighter, built under license by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, is delivered and inducted into the Indian Air Force.
  

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• January 11, 1991 – Bharat Ratna, India’s highest award, was given to Morarji Ranchhodji Desai.
  

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• January 11, 1991 – Ravi Naik of Maharashtra Gomanthak party sworn in as the CM of Goa.
  

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• January 11, 1996 – Canadian PM Jean Chretien visits New Delhi.
  

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• January 11, 1999 – Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu.
  

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to be Continued ..