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Historical Event on 5/11/1626

Malik Ambar of Ahmednagar's Nijamshahi kingdom, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/11/1626Zahir Al-Din Muhammad Babur Shah (1526-30), prince and founder of Mughal dynasty in India, was born.
3/17/1959Dalai Lama XIV flees from Tibet after Chinese military occupied Tibet.
3/23/1911Indranath Bandopadhyay, Bengali comedy writer and journalist, passed away.
11/29/1989Voters oust Gandhi and Congress party
7/1/1996RBI reduces cash reserve ratio to 12\%.
8/15/1947India gains independence from the British rule and Pakistan emerges as a separate Islamic nation. Around 600,000 die in clashes during the subsequent population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries.
8/12/1973Dayanand Balkrishna Bandodkar, first Chief Minister of Goa, Daman and Diu, died.
2/22/1997Jockey Mark Gallagher shot at and injured in Bangalore.
9/3/1767Colonel Smith was defeated in the battle of Changama that took place between the combined forces of Nizam and Hyder Ali and the British army. This was the first war of Mysore. The British concluded a humiliating peace with Hyder Ali of Mysore.
12/20/1990India and Pakistan agree not to attack each other's nuclear installations.