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Historical Event on 5/11/1991
Naxalities in Andhra abduct P. Sudhir Kumar, son of the former Union Minister Shiv Shankar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/24/1996 | BSE index reaches 3869.87, a new 18-month high. |
| 5/12/1992 | Security scandal, RBI extends probe to four foreign banks. |
| 10/28/1996 | Press Council of India to set up a 5-member committee headed by Chairman P.B. Sawant to inquire into the attack on journalists outside the New Delhi residence of Kanshi Ram. |
| 6/12/1972 | D. G. Tendulkar, historian who had written the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, died. |
| 4/12/1871 | Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, editor in modern era and dictionary creator, was born. |
| 7/12/1932 | The 16,000-foot Shyok ice dam in the Himalayas bursts flooding the Indus Valley at Kashmir. |
| 4/24/1944 | Shivprasad Gupta, philanthropist, freedom fighter and educationist, passed away. |
| 4/11/1984 | Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth which carried 3 cosmonauts including the first Indian Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma, to Salyut 7. |
| 2/23/1994 | India rebuts Pak charges on Kashmir in the 53-nation UN Commission on Human Rights. |
| 7/11/1997 | Ten persons were killed as police opened fire on Dalit mob which attacked vehicles in protest against desecration of Ambedkar bust in Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar in north-east Mumbai. |
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