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Historical Event on 5/11/1985

Booby (Doll) trap bomb kills 86 people in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/21/1962India and China declared a truce from the war in which India was badly beaten. Because of winter in China, they halted their advance into India.
1/9/1995Manipur Assembly removes Dr.H. Borobabu (Speaker) and suspends his membership until state election.
6/17/1976Montreal Olympics opens.
6/6/1867Baba Kharak Singh, freedom fighter, was born at Sialkot.
1/28/1992Umanath Vachaspati, Magsesey Award winner, passed away.
12/10/1907Rudyard Kipling, author of `The Jungle Book' and `Kim', received the Nobel prize for literature.
4/12/1992The 350-tonne Buddha statue salvaged from the Hussain Sagar where it had sunk in 1990.
9/13/2000Central Government withdraws the ban on use of non-iodised salt despite protests from the medical community and several state governments.
4/12/1752Agreement to save the king between Shinde and Holkar.
3/12/1991Lok Sabha Speaker Rabi Ray admits to an Opposition-sponsored motion for removal of the Supreme Court Judge V. Ramaswamy for alleged misappropriation of public funds, and sets up a three-Judge committee to investigate.