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Historical Event on 1/11/1986
Union Government declares Ladakh a Scheduled Tribe area under a constitutional amendment order by the President, applying article 342 for the first time to J&K.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/23/1993 | Motilal Vohra made governor of UP. |
| 9/21/1912 | Firoz Gandhi, great politician, was born. |
| 10/31/1984 | Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.' |
| 10/28/1998 | Ghulam Ahmed, former Indian cricket captain, died in Hyderabad. |
| 3/4/1919 | Jagtindar Nath Beri, physics expert, was born. |
| 6/7/1996 | Sq. Ldr. Sanjay Thapar of IAF becomes the first Indian to jump from a parachute and hoist the national flag at the North Pole. |
| 3/23/1947 | Lord Mountbatten was sent as a Viceroy to India who was designated to free India. |
| 10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen (Indian Nobel Laureates), the economist-philosopher, awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his contribution to welfare economics. |
| 11/13/1953 | Richard Nixon, the US Vice President, arrives in New Delhi. |
| 12/12/1908 | Gaandhiji released from Volksrust Gaol. Indian National Congress adopts resolution on South Africa, criticizing the harsh, humiliating and cruel treatment to British Indians in South Africa as injurious to English Empire. |
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