11th December – What Happened Today In History? | On This Day

What Happened Today In History? 

Find out what happened on 11th December in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occurred 11th December

Dilip Kumar,  is an Indian film actor and a former Member of Parliament. He made debut as an actor in the drama picture Jwar Bhata (1944), produced by Bombay Talkies. He is also known as Tragedy King, and is described as “the ultimate method actor” by Satyajit Ray. Kumar’s career has spanned five decades and over 60 films
Osho (11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), born Chandra Mohan Jain, and also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher
Chinnaswami Subramanya Bharathi (December 11, 1882 – September 11, 1921) was a Tamil writer, poet, journalist, Indian independence activist and social reformer from Tamil Nadu, India. Popularly known as Mahakavi Bharathiyar
Raghuvaran (11 December 1958 – 19 March 2008) was an Indian actor who predominantly acted in movies made in South India. He became famous for his portrayal of villain and character roles in Tamil films. He has acted in more than 150 Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi films.
Viswanathan Anand  (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess Grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion. Anand has won the World Chess Championship five times (2000, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012), and has been the undisputed World Champion since 2007.

Death anniversaries on 11th December :

Ravi Shankar   often referred to with the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the most known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart
Madurai (Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi )M.S., was a renowned Carnatic vocalist. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna,.
Kavi Pradeep  born Ramchandra Baryanji Dwivedi, was a renowned poet and songwriter who is best known for his patriotic song, Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo, written as tribute to the soldiers who had died defending the country, during the Sino-Indian War. His first recognition came for his patriotic lyrics for the film Bandhan
Nanabhoy “Nani” Ardeshir Palkhivala   was an Indian jurist and economist. Nani Palkhivala was born in 1920 in Bombay to blue collar, middle-class Parsi parents. His family name derives from the profession of his forefathers (a common practice among Parsis),
Mario João    Carlos do Rosario de Brito Miranda, ComIH  popularly known as Mario Miranda or Mario de Miranda, was an Indian cartoonist based in Loutolim in the Indian state of Goa. Miranda had been a regular with The Times of India and other newspapers in Mumbai, including The Economic Times

Notable Events:

1967 .5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed
1968  Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology
1971 The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions -India’s ‘Red Devils’, as they are affectionately called, have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinen

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