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Historical Event on 5/11/1965

The first of two cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 people in the country.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/21/1997Government extends the provision of the payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 to all those societies and trusts which employed 10 or more people.
11/18/1972Tiger was adopted as India's 'National Animal'
11/29/1926Prabhakar Narayan Padhye (Bhau Padhye), great journalist and litterateur, was born.
8/5/1909Dwijhans Kalika Prasad Dixit, great poet and educationist, was born at Gram Dedani in Uttar Pradesh.
3/2/1984Mother Teresa University inaugurated by Mother herself at Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu.
3/21/1971Gavaskar scores the first of his 34 Test tons, 116 at Georgetown.
4/3/1994B. Rachaiah,Kerala Governor, takes charge of Goa.
7/7/1943Rasbehari Bose handed over the command of 'Azad Hind Fauz' to Netaji Subhashchandra Bose at Singapore.
2/8/1986For the first time in the country, pre-paid taxi sevice scheme was established at New Delhi airport.
3/21/1992India's second submarine 'Shankul' joined Navy.