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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
3/24/1944Manmohan Singh, famous economist and Finance Minister of India, was born.
4/7/1997NAM foreign ministers two-day conference begins in New Delhi.
10/26/1999The Government rejected the demand that Rajiv Gandhi's name be deleted from the chargesheet in the Bofors case.
3/10/193917 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad, India.
6/14/1992Tin Bigha activists lathi-charged in the Tin Bigha corridor in Coochbehar.
11/24/1952Brijesh Parsuram Patel, cricketer (Indian batsman 1974-77), was born in Baroda.
6/24/1991K. Karunakaran ministry assumes power in Kerala.
4/21/1994Malayalam sweeps national film awards. Mammootty, Shobhana best actor and actress; T.V. Chandran best director; Buddadeb Das Gupta's Bengali 'Charachar' adjudged best film.
11/14/1957Children's Day.
1/12/1863Swami Vivekananda (Narendra Vishwanath Dutta)(1863-1902), dynamic renaissance missionary to West, catalyst of Hindu revival in India and social reformer, was born at Calcutta.