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Historical Event on 5/11/1985
Fifteen hundred people were arrested in Sikh violence.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/7/1868 | Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, was born. |
| 4/1/1978 | India's sixth Five-Year Plan commenced. |
| 2/28/1918 | Srinivas Ramanujan, famous Indian scientist, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. |
| 2/8/1872 | Lord Mayo, Viceroy of India, was assassinated by prisoner Sher Ali during his visit to Andaman Islands. |
| 3/24/1987 | First developmental launch of new generation rocket ASLV 'Stretched Rohini Satellite Series' (SROSS-1). This carried payload for launch vehicle performance monitoring and for gamma ray astronomy. This plunged within two minutes and 40 seconds of its launching. |
| 10/16/1942 | Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 people in south of Calcutta, India. |
| 1/12/1992 | India and Russia sign a new political treaty. |
| 10/14/1919 | Raghu Karmkar, famous cinephotographer, was born. |
| 10/27/1999 | The Archbishop of Delhi rules out Pope John Paul II's dialogue with the VHP during his visit to India in November. |
| 12/1/1963 | Nagaland becomes the 16th state of Indian union. |
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