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Historical Event on 7/11/1997

Ten persons were killed as police opened fire on Dalit mob which attacked vehicles in protest against desecration of Ambedkar bust in Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar in north-east Mumbai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/5/1989Dalai Lama was honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize (1989).
5/16/1975Sikkim annexed principality and was declared as the 22nd state of Indian Union.
3/19/2000Bill Clinton, US President, arrives to a warm welcome in India. This was the first presidential visit of a US head in two decades.
11/10/1848Surendranath Banerji, popularly known as Rashtraguru, was born at Taltala, Calcutta. He passed his final ICS Examination in 1869 and joined in 1871, He was President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
8/9/1952New Delhi reports that 20 mil. Indian peasants were imperiled by crop failures.
1/5/1934Dr. Murli Manohar Manmohan Joshi was born in Delhi.
7/1/1941C. Y. Chintamani died.
7/21/1994The Supreme Court declares that SC/ST will lose status on migration to other states.
7/20/1993British parliament ratifies the Indo-British extradition treaty.
9/1/1896Bhaktivedanta Swami, litterateur and social worker, was born in Calcutta.