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Historical Event on 6/11/2000

Assailants gun down 12 upper caste persons, including eight of a family in Bihar's Nawada district.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/26/1915Pran Nath Chhuttani, great physician and teacher, was born.
8/6/1920'Shakuntala' made by Oriental Film Mfg. Co. was released.
3/20/1952Anand Armitraj, great Indian tennis player (Brother of Vijay), was born.
2/20/1987Lok Dal splits over leadership issue.
11/11/1998V. M. Devaraj (78), DMK leader and former MLA, passed away after a brief illness. He represented Vellore in 1980, 1984 and 1989. He was a close associate of the DMK founder, C. N. Annadurai.
1/9/1889Dr. Vrindavanlal Varma, famous Hindi writer and social reformer, was born in Jhansi. He mainly wrote historical and social novels, most famouse being ""Mriganainee"".
12/13/1999The Railways announces concessions for senior citizens, students upto Class X and the poor.
6/25/1998Sikh high priests exonerate the Akali Dal leader and chief of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Gurcharan Singh Tohra, of charges of violating a ``Hukumnama'' (religious edict) issued by the Akal Takht, which prescribed a complete boycott of the members of the Nirankari missions for their ''blasphemous'' activities.
11/3/1933Amartya Kumar Sen, economist, was born at Santiniketan (Bangal).
2/22/1854Kawasji Nanabhai Dawar started the first Cloth Mill namely 'Bombay Spinning Mills'.