Salt Lake City, Utah Indian Community - UtahIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 1/11/1966

Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Prime Minister (1964-66), passed away at Tashkent, U.S.S.R. at 1:32, age 61. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/2/1980Raj Narain expelled from Lok Dal forms Janata (S) Party.
3/31/1992The new five-year Export-Import policy relaxes restrictions.
3/3/1707Shehejade Muajjam declared himself as the successor of Aurangzeb and renamed himself Bahadurshah First.
9/24/1936It was reported that in the past two weeks over 2 million of India's depressed classes had renounced Hinduism in favor of Christianity.
3/30/1989Waman Ganpat Behre `Sobat', editor of weekly, passed away.
8/26/1914Bengali revolutionaries looted 46,000 bullet ammunition and pistols from Calcutta Port for their revolutionary activities.
5/1/1983Amravati University established.
10/9/1968Olympic Games open in Mexico City.
4/11/1931Mahendranath Yeshwant Gupte, cricket test umpire for 1 test in 1984-85, was born at Mumbai.
4/15/1947The new Indian Parliament appeals for non-violence.