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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 |
| 5/11/1911 | Vasco De Gama, Portuguese navigator who discovered India, died in Cochin. |
| 1/1/1983 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Communications Year"". |
| 10/20/1990 | Kona Prabhakar Rao, former Governor of Maharashtra, died. |
| 10/25/1964 | First indigenous tank was manufactured in Awdi factory and was named 'Vijayant'. |
| 9/7/1931 | Meena Mangeshkar, famous playback singer, was born. |
| 11/15/1999 | Notorious criminal Surendra alias Dolatpuri is shot dead in a police encounter at Khatavli, Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 9/3/1953 | Laxmanrao Parvatkar (Khaprumama), famous Tabla player, passed away. |
| 10/16/1922 | M.V. Desai, social reformer and journalist, was born. |
| 7/31/2000 | The Lok Sabha passes by voice vote a bill for creation of Chhattisgarh state. |
| 8/15/1997 | K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta. |
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