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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
8/9/1997Sonia Gandhi addresses Congress plenary session at Calcutta.
12/3/1993Bahadur Prasad wins silver in 1500 m in Asian Track and Field meet in Manila.
8/7/1905Indian National Congress declared to boycott the British goods for the first time against Bengal partition, and also advocated to buy ' Swadeshi.
6/10/1900Jayantnath Chaudhary, former General of Indian Army General, was born.
4/27/1996General Election (11th) of India begins.
4/18/1959Premier Chou En-lai insists Tibetan Dalai Lama was abducted to India.
4/23/1987Supreme Court in a judgement confers Hindu widows absolute ownership of property under Hindu Succession Act 1956.
1/20/1972Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura become states of Indian union. Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram become Union Territories. Assam's North East Frontier Agency (Nepha) was renamed as Arunachal Pradesh territory.
5/12/1998Bill Clinton, US President, asks India to sign the CTBT.
10/1/1997Gul Mohammed (36), world's shortest man, died in New Delhi. Standing 56.16 cm tall, Mohammed entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1992.