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Historical Event on 5/11/1993
Toy factory fire kills over 200 people in Bangalore.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/13/1970 | Flooding ravages Ganges delta. 200,000 million killed. |
| 12/23/1964 | India & Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed. |
| 5/5/1989 | Naval Tata, famous industrialist, passed away. |
| 10/5/1997 | Dr. Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian woman to become an astronaut. (year 1997 or Oct. 5, 1998) |
| 11/29/1993 | Jahangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata ""J.R.D. Tata"", Bharat Ratna awardee, Father of Modern Indian Industries and founder of Indian Aviation industry, passed away at 89 in Gen |
| 4/1/1902 | Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, cricketer, (one Test, India v England 1934, scored 19 & 0), was born in Bombay. |
| 7/29/1996 | Aruna Asaf Ali, freedom fighter and player of important role in Quit India Movement, passed away in New Delhi. She was awarded with Bharat Ratna. |
| 10/29/1935 | Narendra Kumar Chhajerh, great industrialist, was born. |
| 5/15/2000 | Ghulam Hassan Bhat, Jammu and Kashmir Minister of State for Power, dies in a powerful IED explosion near Mandipore in Anantnag. |
| 2/20/1992 | Pandit Gauri Shankar, famous dance director in Hindi films, passed away. |
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