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Events for June 11

11-June-1901	Pramathanath Bishi, professor and Hindi writer, was born.
11-June-1907	Shantilal Jivanlal Gandhi, famous Hindi writer, was born in Mehmadabad, Gujarat .
11-June-1921	Snehlata, social reformer and politician, was born at Mathura, U.P.
11-June-1930	A cyclonic storm blew a train off the rails near Himmatnagar, Gujarat, killing at least one person and injuring many more.
11-June-1931	Purushottam Vishnu Behre, great editor, story and novel writer, was born.
11-June-1932	Minu Modi, famous industrialist, was born.
11-June-1946	Viceroy interviewed Gandhiji, and mooted proposal of Coalition Government at Centre.
11-June-1964	Dr. Jayant Narlikar, great mathematician of India, submitted his thesis to Royal Society of London.
11-June-1976	Indira Gandhi and Brezhnev sign the Moscow Declaration of Friendship and Cooperation.
11-June-1983	Ghanshyam Das Birla, great freedom fighter, social reformer, pioneer of Indian business, industry, and nationalist, died at London at the age of 89.
11-June-1984	574 Sikh army deserters arrested.
11-June-1991	Forty die in rioting in Srinigar, Kashmir.
11-June-1991	Over 106.6 million voters go to the second phase of national polls.
11-June-1995	PM leaves for 4-day official visit to France.
11-June-1996	Narasimha Rao's name figures in fresh FIR on bribing JMM MPs case.
11-June-1997	BSE sensitive index reaches 3927
11-June-1997	I.K. Gujral, PM, asserts that India had not deployed the `Prithvi' ballistic missile anywhere in the country or on the border.
11-June-1997	Jaspal Rana and J. Abhijit in the men's section and Nisha Millet in the women's section adjudged best sports persons of the National Games.
11-June-1998	Chetak helicopter of IAF rescued a Border Security Force Jawan stuck waist deep in quicksand.
11-June-1999	India provided incontrovertible tape evidence of Pakistan's involvement in the Kargil sector. The Indian army killed 23 intruders in the Batalik and Dras sectors but lost 15 of its men.
11-June-2000	Assailants gun down 12 upper caste persons, including eight of a family in Bihar's Nawada district.
11-June-2000	Rajesh Pilot, Congress(I) leader and former Union Minister, died in a road accident in his home constituency, Dausa.
11-June-2000	27 army personnel die after the bus carrying them plunges into a gorge at a spot 80 km from Jammu.