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Historical Event on 6/11/1997

BSE sensitive index reaches 3927.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/3/1994The government decides to disinvest government holding in 21 Public Sector Units including ITI, IOC and ITDC.
3/6/1991Chandrasekhar resigns as PM.
11/20/1999World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy.
11/13/1970Flooding ravages Ganges delta. 200,000 million killed.
10/31/1997Autonomous Prasar Bharati with enough muscle to get Government off its back is promised by Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Jaipal Reddy, while announcing changes to Prasar Bharati Act in New Delhi.
9/12/1922Chandradhar Sharma Guleri passed away.
5/28/1978The kiss comes to the Hindi screen in 'Love Sublime,' and is seen as a sign of what the govt. calls greater 'creative freedom,' after Indira Gandhi's authoritarian rule at Bombay.
4/22/1996National Stock Exchange launches a new equity index - the NSE 50.
8/15/1969Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) formed under Department of Atomic Energy.
2/11/1996Nepal PM Sher Bahadur Deuba arrives in India for a week-long visit.