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Historical Event on 11/7/1966

Riots over slaughtered cow claims seven lives.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/9/1996PM unveils India's state-of-the-art Main Battle Rank (MBT) `Arjun' at a New Delhi function.
4/16/1959Raurkela Iron Project's first furnace started functioning.
11/1/1967Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory.
1/26/1950Government of India accepted the National Emblem. It consisted of Head of Lion which is taken from Ashok piller situated near Sarnath.
7/21/1999The Janata Dal splits under Deve Gowda and Sharad Yadav. The latter group to support NDA.
11/3/1992Premnath, hero and villan of Hindi film industry, passed away.
5/14/1995Major train accident near Salem when KK Express collides with goods train killing 51 people.
3/12/1917Googie Withers, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing), was born in Karachi, India.
11/20/1967First Indian made Sounding Rocket 'Rohini RH75' launched into space from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station.
5/1/1948Baroda State merged into Bombay Province.