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Historical Event on 11/5/1950
Faiyaj Khan, famous singer of Indian classical music, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/17/1839 | Lord William Bentik, governor general of India, was born. |
| 2/13/1936 | Dinsha Wachha, great Industrialist and social worker, passed away at Mumbai. |
| 6/7/1984 | Indian Army troops, sent to Punjab to quell Sikh violence, stormed the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the holiest of Sikh shrines. More than 400 persons were reported killed in the assault at the shrine, including Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. |
| 8/3/1995 | Enron Power Project scrapped by Maharashtra government. |
| 4/4/1905 | More than 10,000 people are feared to have perished in an earthquake that hit the northeast Indian province of Lahore during the night. The town of Dharmsala was almost completely razed to the ground with the entire population rendered homeless and sleeping out in icy conditions. Five hundred Gurkha soldiers were buried alive when their stonebuilt barracks collapsed on them. The towns of Kangra and Palampur have also been leveled to the ground by the worst natural disaster measured at 8 on Ricter Scale. In Lahore, 70 Hindus were killed, Muslim inhabitants were parading in the streets, weeping and offering up prayers with ceremonial rites. Several British administrators and missionaries were known to have been killed or injured. At Simla, Lady Curzon, wife of the Viceroy, had a close escape from death when a chimney crashed into the room in which she was sleeping. |
| 12/1/2000 | There would be a cap of 20 per cent equity for broadcasters planning to operate DTH television services, said I&B minister Sushma Swaraj. |
| 3/31/1972 | Meena Kumari, famous film actress, passed away. |
| 5/28/1925 | Awadh Kishore Narain, educationist, was born. |
| 6/4/1992 | Stock broker Harshad Mehta and his associates arrested. |
| 1/9/1972 | In 1971, 433 feature films produced in the world with a record and a top position in film production. |
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