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Historical Event on 5/11/1993
Toy factory fire kills over 200 people in Bangalore.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/4/1935 | Government of India got the Royal Assent Act 1935. |
| 8/6/1933 | Kripal Singh Govindsingh, Amritsar, India, 100* on debut v NZ 1959, was born at Madras. |
| 8/22/1993 | Gundu Rao, former Chief Minister of Karnataka, died. He was 56. |
| 3/1/1950 | The population figure for India is announced as 347,340,000. |
| 1/12/1993 | Police firing at 15 places in Bombay; four foreign militants arrested. |
| 7/2/1961 | Prof M S Thacker, DG-CSIR, laid the foundation stone for the wind tunnel complex. |
| 9/3/1906 | Prithviraj Kapoor, veteran film actor, was born in Peshawar. His first film was 'Challenge' (1929). He is the founder of Prithvi Theatre in Bombay. He is remembered for his immortal role of Akbar is film 'Mugul-E-Azam'. |
| 2/13/1968 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee elected President of the All India Jan Sangha. |
| 5/14/1996 | H.D. Deve Gowda elected leader of the third front as its prime ministerial candidate. |
| 7/3/1941 | Adoor Gopalakrishnan, cinematographer (Kathapurushan, Mathulikal), was born. |
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