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Historical Event on 5/11/1911

Shrimati Lalitadevi, wife of second Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/18/1879Branch of 'Theosophical Panth' established in India.
7/15/1902Judge K. Subba Rao, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
2/13/1719Jahandar Shah was strangled to death and the Sayyid brothers were killed soon after.
10/1/1981Activists of the Dal Khalsa, who masterminded the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane. arrested.
12/12/1999Ram Prakash Gupta, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, said Ram temple issue is still on BJP's agenda.
10/15/1921Suryanarayannamurty Rebbapragada, social reformer, college principal and journalist, was born at Rajahmundry in A.P.
12/13/1984The death toll in a toxic gas leak from an insecticide plant in Bhopal, India, now is estimated at 2,100, and tens of thousands of residents fled the city today after it was announced that the Union Carbide plant would be started up again to neutralize the effect.
8/25/1999Former Indian Davis Cup captain Narendra Nath died in Delhi.
12/16/2000Indian Airlines wins the 60th National Hockey championship in Jammu.
8/9/1952New Delhi reports that 20 mil. Indian peasants were imperiled by crop failures.