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Historical Event on 8/11/2000

Koneru Humpy was crowned the youngest British Ladies chess champion at the end of eleventh and final round in the Smith and Williamson British chess championship in Somerset.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/10/1921Wilhelm Conrad Von Roentgen, professor and nobel prize winner, passed away.
10/21/2000Seema Antil becomes the first Indian ever to win a global title by bagging a gold medal in disc throw in the World Junior Athletic championship in Santiago.
9/12/1931Triloki Nath Madan, educationist and journalist, was born at Srinagar, Kashmir.
4/16/1801Warrior Vithoji Holkar of Peshwa kingdom was assassinated.
5/5/1947Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable.
10/2/1998Santanu Deb Barma of Tripura was chosen for Kabir Puraskar for her role in preventing violence and riots in some areas of the state in 1997.
11/6/1937Yashwant BipinBihari Sinha was born in Patna (Bihar).
10/16/1942Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 people in south of Calcutta, India.
11/21/1947First Stamp of Independent India was released
12/31/1900Krishna Narayan Ratanjankar, famous musician and writer of Tan Sangrah in three parts and Abhinav Geet Mangari, was born in Bombay.