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Historical Event on 1/11/1966

Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"".

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/3/1999India's INSAT-2E multipurpose telecommunications satellite is successfully launched from the Kourou space station in French Guyana.
1/12/1992India and Russia sign a new political treaty.
2/17/1992Tripura's Congress (I) ministry falls as TUJS withdraws support.
2/9/1917Homi Talyarkhan, great politician, was born.
3/25/1994Buta Singh exonerated by the Akal Takht after 9 years.
11/9/1913Weekly 'Pratap' was published from Kanpur which was edited by Ganesh Shankar Vidyrarthi.
8/30/1983Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1B) launched. This was also a multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite, which served for more than its design life of seven years. It was launched by a US Space Shuttle.
11/22/1916Shanti Ghosh, great revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Calcutta. She was one of the accused in famous Chargaon ammunition plot and assassination of General Lemen, Inspector General of Dhaka.
12/22/2000Three Army jawans die in an attack by a suicide squad of Lakshar-e-Taiba at the Red Fort in Delhi leading to a 45-minute gun-battle.
1/11/1999Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu.