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Historical Event on 5/11/1985

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

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/5/1992D.D. Lapang takes over as the new CM of Meghalaya.
5/18/1775Warren Hastings expressed doubt of hanging Nandkumar.
1/2/1990Election panel made one member body again; Election Commissioners S. S. Dhanoa and V. S. Seigell removed.
3/23/1757Lord Clive conquered Chandranagar after defeating the French troops.
8/10/1860Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, the great architect of the renaissance of Hindustani music and who played a vital role in giving re-birth to North Indian classical music, was born at Balukeshwar, Maharashtra.
4/6/1906Kaveri Bhaskar Karve, teacher and author, was born at Harnai, Ratnagiri, .
2/19/1978Pankaj Mallik, famous Bengali music director and playback singer, passed away. He was the singer of the famous Hindi song ""Piya Milan Ko Jaana"".
3/23/1968Atul Satish Wassan, cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1989-90), was born in Delhi.
1/14/1998The Prime Ministers of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh come together for a three-nation business summit in Dhaka.
1/1/1988On the Christan New Year Day, Maharashtra became the first state to launch a public campaign against smoking.