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Historical Event on 5/11/1985

Booby (Doll) trap bomb kills 86 people in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/15/1998The Indian Army at Chandilora (Tangmey) captured 15 kg charas, 400 gm dust of charas and 12 kg leaves of charas.
3/17/1991The first Indian Remote Sensing Satellite IRS-IA completes three years of successful operation. (18-3-91).
7/5/1916Archik Venkatesh Gopalkrishna, great poet, journalist and orator, was born at Dharwar, Mysore.
8/1/1957M. K. Vellodi was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 04-06-1958.
9/10/1999Top seeds Bhupathi and Paes finished runners-up in the US Open doubles, losing to Sebastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien in the final.
3/3/1983Seventh Non-Aligned Summit started at New Delhi.
1/12/1708Shahu was crowned as the Maratha ruler. Shahu, son of Sambhaji, entered Satara and released Aurangzeb's son Azam the previous year.
9/29/2000A special court convicted former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then cabinet colleague Buta Singh in the JMM MPs' bribery case. Nine others got benefit of doubt.
6/1/1959The Chinese occupy Tibet and Dalai Lama flees to India.
8/18/1957Tilak Raj was appointed the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed his office for four years till 6th September, 1961.