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Historical Event on 2/11/1997

A New Delhi district consumer court holds that provision of drinking water aboard trains is a necessity and it is the duty of the railways to provide it to passengers in reserved compartments.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/4/1895Siyaramsharan Gupt was born.
8/14/1900S. K. Patil, Congress leader, was born.
11/27/1778Joseph Lin flew upto 2,286 meters high with the help of a baloon.
3/11/1997Chennai police seize a large quantity of powerful explosives and arrest two Muslim fundamentalists.
10/24/1984First Metro Train (Underground Train) in India started between Esplanade and Bhowanipore in Calcutta city.
11/21/1998India 'B' beats Sri Lanka 3-2 in the final of the Bristol Freedom Cup four-nation football tournament in Colombo.
5/10/1993Santosh Yadav becomes the first Indian woman to reach the Everest for the second time.
9/19/2000Karnam Malleswari adds a glorious chapter to Indian sports history at the Sydney International Convention Centre by becoming the first woman to gain an Olympic medal.
10/19/1910Subrahamanyam Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore. He was one of the world's leading astrophysicists. For his contributions to the study of stars, Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science, the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983.
8/17/1986In the Jehovah's Witnesses' case, the Supreme Court rules that ""singing National Anthem is not obligatory"".