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Historical Event on 4/11/1999
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).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/17/1916 | Gurusiddappa Sivappa, great industrialist, was born at Bangalore. |
| 9/19/1936 | Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, expert in north Indian classical music, died. He was also a lawyer, professor and social reformer. |
| 11/17/1994 | Dr. Harbhajan Singh, Punjabi poet, wins Saraswati Samman. |
| 8/28/1904 | First car rally between Calcutta to Barakpur held. |
| 7/15/1936 | Hridayanand 'Kumaresh' Tiwari, great Hindi poet and writer, was born in Reoti, U.P. |
| 10/3/1997 | Financial and operational autonomy to be given to 97 profit-making public sector enterprises ('mini-ratnas') other than the navaratnas. |
| 11/24/1899 | Pandit Hiralal Shastri, great social worker, leader and first chief minister of Rajasthan state, was born at Jobner, Jaipur District. |
| 1/6/1932 | Kamleshwar, famous Hindi writer, was born. |
| 7/3/1991 | Rupee devalued again from 10.58 to 10.96\% . |
| 2/8/1989 | Mrs. Gro Harlem Brundtland, PM of Norway, was awarded 1988 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development. |
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