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Historical Event on 6/11/1991

Forty die in rioting in Srinigar, Kashmir.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/8/1993Dasarath Deb, veteran tribal leader, elected leader of the Left and Democratic Front legislature party in Tripura.
1/16/1973Om Prakash Mehra, Air Chief Marshal PVSM, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/01/1976.
1/30/1971Indian Airline's Fokker Friendship aircraft in India was hijacked to Lahore.
8/6/1920Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon.
8/20/1969Varahagiri Venkata Giri was elected President and G. S. Pathak as Vice President of India.
8/6/1951Rukmini Lakshmipathi, great social reformer and leader, died.
2/20/2000India-born Mr. Ujjal Dosanjh (52), leader of New Democratic Party, sworn in Canada's first Indo-Canadian Premier of British Columbia.
10/31/1963Krishna Menon, resigned from the post of Defence Minister of India, due to Chinese attack.
10/22/2000The Supreme Court, in a significant order, erases Karnataka High Court judgement discharging former Chief Minister S. Bangarappa and his then private secretary R. Suribabu in a corruption case.
3/30/1993Air Time Committee Chief P.S. Deodhar and its members resign in protest against the implementation of the metro channel of Doordarshan.