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Historical Event on 5/11/1985

Fifteen hundred people were arrested in Sikh violence.

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4/12/2000Ban on LTTE for two more years from May 14, says the Union Home Minister L. K. Advani.
10/30/1996CBI chargesheets Rao and six others including Buta Singh and Capt. Satish Sharma in the Rs. 3.5 cr. JMM MPs pay-off case.
4/5/1989Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati litterateur, died.
11/25/1999Madras HC sets aside Tamil Nadu Governor Fathima Beevi's order rejecting the mercy petitions of four accused in Rajiv Gandhi case.
3/23/1992G. S. Dhillon, former speaker of Lok Sabha, passed away.
8/12/1988S. R. Bommai elected Karnataka CM.
5/6/2000Benoy Krishna Chowdhury (89), veteran freedom fighter and prominent CPI(M) leader, died at a Government Hospital in Calcutta.
5/7/1973Shivkumar Batalvi, famous Punjabi poet, died.
6/30/1999The first ever direct bus service between India and Bangladesh gets delayed due to heavy rain.
10/1/1932Indian Milatary Academy became functional with Brigadier LP Collins, DSO, OBE as the Commandant. The first course of 40 GCs had on its rolls Sam Manekshaw, Smith Dun and Mohd Musa, later to be Chiefs of the armies of their respective countries, i.e. India, Burma (now Myanmar) and Pakistan. This training was for a period of two and a half years.