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Historical Event on 6/11/2000

Rajesh Pilot, Congress(I) leader and former Union Minister, died in a road accident in his home constituency, Dausa.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/18/1998Dr. A. R. Kidwai is appointed Governor of West Bengal.
10/24/1890Shishirkumar Mitra, Physics expert, was born in Calcutta.
12/19/1857The trial on Raja Nahar Singh, who was arrested and then was prisioned at Metcalfe House, began on Saturday at 1100 hrs at Delhi.
2/3/1986Pope John Paul II meets Mother Teresa at Calcutta.
4/11/1906K.V. Jagannathan, great Hindi writer and journalist, was born at Krishnarayapuram,Tamil Nadu.
6/20/1995B.R. Verma was made pro-tem Speaker by Governor by invoking Article 180 (1).
9/15/1860M. Visveswarayya, maker of modern Karnataka, was born. He was a notable engineer too.
3/12/1997aspal Rana equals world mark in standard pistol 25m (ISU) event in South Asian shooting in Delhi.
8/25/1997Konkan Railway line in Goa, except for a short stretch between Pernem and Maharashtra border, becomes operational.
9/8/1887Swami Sivananda, (1887-1963), religious leader, Hindu universalist renaissance guru, author of 200 books and founder of Divine Life Society with 400 branches worldwide, was born in the quiet village of Pattamadai, District Tirunelveli.