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Historical Event on 6/11/2000

27 army personnel die after the bus carrying them plunges into a gorge at a spot 80 km from Jammu.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/25/1971National Science and Technology Committee established.
2/24/1988Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile.
2/24/1988Saint Narhari Sonar, a poet-saint of the Varkari smanaj and goldsmith (sonar) from Maharashtra had taken Samadhi. His transition from a staunch Shaiva to a Vithoba-worshipping Varkari, after a miracle that makes him realize that Vithoba and Shiva are one and the same.
6/28/1857Nana Sahib proclaimed himself as the Peshwa and called for the total extermination of the British power of India at Bithoor.
12/1/1985Rajiv Gandhi concludes the first official visit to Japan by an Indian Prime Minister at Tokyo.
1/26/1981Vayudoot air service started with a flight of a F27, from Guwahati airport. This is the third Indian airline inaugurated.
6/13/1879Ganesh Damodar (Babarao) Savarkar, revolutionary, was born.
10/21/1998Ajit alias Hamid Ali Khan (76), Hindi film actor, dies in Hyderabad.
11/9/1992Chandralekha resigns from IAS and joins Tamizhaga Wellatchi Iyyakkam (Tamil Movement for Good Government) led by Dr. Subramaniam Swamy.
9/6/1996CBI arrests four Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leaders in bribery case.