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Historical Event on 6/11/1998

Chetak helicopter of IAF rescued a Border Security Force Jawan stuck waist deep in quicksand.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/27/1994Parliament votes to ban tests for determining the sex of an unborn child, as these tests have resulted in thousands of aborted female fetuses.
10/5/1864Cyclone destroyed most of Calcutta city in which approximately 50,000 people died.
11/29/1959Govind Sakharam Serdesai, Jagirdar Raobahadur, passed away.
12/17/1830Simon Bolivar, great dynamic leader and social reformer, died.
8/3/1947Shetkari Kamgar Party was established at Devachi Alandi.
6/1/1955India's Untouchability (Offence) Act comes into force.
12/16/1921Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation started tunnel construction under Hoogly river.
10/15/1676King of England permitted the East India Company to mint the Rupee and Paisa coins at Bombay.
9/10/1976An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 aeroplane was hijacked for the second time and taken to Lahore, Pakistan.
9/5/1997Mother Teresa, founder of Missionaries of Charity who was awarded with Nobel Prize (1979) and Bharat Ratna, died at the age of 87 due to heart attack late in the evening around 9:30 pm in Calcutta.