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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
5/1/1996International women's master Anupama Gokhale of Bharat Petroleum becomes the first woman in the history of Indian chess to win an all-India level international rating tournament with her bagging the Mohammed Hassan memorial title.
9/11/1889Dr. P. Subbarayan, minister and leader of the House in O.P. and President of the Cricket Control Board, was born in Tamil Nadu.
12/22/1751Battle of Mandavgargh.
2/24/1988Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile.
2/1/1910Jahangir Mohammed Khan, cricketer (father of Majid, Indian player 1932-36), was born in Jallundar.
5/29/1933Kishorilal Goswami, famous Hindi novelist, passed away.
1/8/1996Maharashtra government clears Enron Dhabol power project at a tariff of Rs. 1.86 per unit.
2/14/1994The controversial Supreme Court Judge V.Ramaswami, who survived an impeachment motion in Parliament, retires.
6/9/1752French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly, India.
12/15/1999Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, arrives in Berlin to attend G-20 meet.