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Historical Event on 6/11/2000

Assailants gun down 12 upper caste persons, including eight of a family in Bihar's Nawada district.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/2/1994Autonomous Hill Council for Leh set up.
12/11/1968Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.
10/20/1999Quiet start to the 13th Lok Sabha.
11/1/1913Ghadar Movement started at San Francisco.
6/14/1996CBI grills PV Prabhakar Rao, son of former PM, for his involvement in the Rs. 133 crore NFL urea import scandal.
7/5/1857Baigum Hazrat Mahal again attack on Lucknow.
12/7/1992Religious riots swept across India in the wake of the destruction of the ancient Babri Masjid mosque by rampaging Hindu fanatics in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya yesterday. More than 800 people had been killed and hundreds injured as Muslim and Hindu mobs stabbed, shooted and beat each other. The violence had thrown the government into chaos and had spilled into the neighboring states of Pakistan and Bangladesh. The army had been called out to restore order in Bombay, where street battles left 41 dead. The stock market had been closed down and Parliament forced to adjourn. Advani quit as the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha.
7/26/1933Gandhiji went back to Sabarmati Ashram after his release from jail.
4/1/1920S. Bhattacharya, cricket Test Umpire for 2 tests from 1963-70, was born in Delhi.
9/30/1997Gen. V. P. Malik takes over from Gen. Shankar Roychowdhury as Chief of Army Staff.