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Historical Event on 6/11/2000

Assailants gun down 12 upper caste persons, including eight of a family in Bihar's Nawada district.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/17/1957Nehru, who went to Ceylon to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of Buddhism, calls for an end to nuclear tests.
5/17/1957Meerabai, saint poet, passed away.
6/28/1928Baburao Sadvelkar, famous painter, was born.
12/28/1977Sumitranandan Pant, famous Hindi poet and literaeur, died.
12/27/1996Mahashweta Devi, Bengali litterateur, win the Gyanpith Award.
3/30/1997Congress Party withdraws support to the 10-month old H. D. Deve Gowda Government at the centre, and stakes its claim to form an alternative government.
2/18/1823Gopal Hari Deshmukh, lokhitwadi, was born.
4/15/1947The new Indian Parliament appeals for non-violence.
12/28/1952Arun Jaitley, son of Maharaj Kishan Jaitley, was born in New Delhi.
2/7/1983Eastern News Agency was established in Calcutta .