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Historical Event on 2/11/1933

First edition of weekly ""Harijan"" edited by Mahatma Gandhi was published from Pune in English and Hindi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/4/1967Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. began delivery of the MIG aircraft.
7/27/1928Rameshwar Sahai Saxena, famous writer, lawyer and journalist, was born at Lalitpur, (UP).
9/14/1971Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, died.
1/1/1874The first women magazine ""Bola Bodhini"" was published.
9/9/1944Mahatma Gandhi conducted several talks between 9th September to 27the September with Mohammed Ali Jinnah regarding Pakistan.
12/9/1946The first meeting of Constitutional Committee Assembly was held in Parliment after a gap of two years, 11 months and 17 days. The Congress started its work of framing the Indian Constitution. Muslim League boycott failed to prevent Constituent Assembly opening. From 16th August 1946, the country witnessed communal riots on an unprecedented scale. At this crucial juncture, on 20th February 1947, Clement Atlee the British prime minister, fixed June 1948 as a deadline for transfer of power and Lord Mountbatten was appointed as the new Viceroy.
5/9/1981Durga Bai Deshmukh passed away at Hyderabad. She was a social reformer, freedom fighter, planner, administrator, educationist and parliamentarian. She worked for peace, social welfare and for betterment of the downtrodden.
5/9/1981Vasco De Gama, Portuguese navigator who discovered India, died in Cochin.
7/21/1977K.S. Hegde elected Lok Sabha Speaker.
1/27/1904R. P. Kanitkar, veteran writer, nationalist, journalist and editor, was born.