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Historical Event on 5/11/1985

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

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/13/1999Militants attack the residential complex of Border Security Force (BSF) in Madar village near Bandipur and take 12 persons as hostages after killing four.
12/4/1829Britain abolished ""sati"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre)
9/2/1984Thousands of Sikhs rally at Golden Temple to protest govt. occupation in Amritsar.
8/13/1997The contentious women's reservation bill put on the back burner with PM Gujral saying govt. would not push through such a major social legislation until there was a consensus on it.
4/15/1926Gurvel Singh Pannu, famous Hindi writer, was born in Lauhka, Punjab.
7/16/1981India performs nuclear Test.
3/15/1950Planning Commission Day.
5/28/1997Former Union Ministers Arjun Singh, N.D. Tiwari, R.K. Dhawan and Madhavrao Scindia discharged in the Jain hawala case by special judge V.B. Gupta.
10/10/1946Noakhali Massacre.
1/8/1992Luggage rate of railway passengers hiked by 30 per cent.