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Historical Event on 1/11/1966

Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Prime Minister (1964-66), passed away at Tashkent, U.S.S.R. at 1:32, age 61. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously.

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1/3/1985Azharuddin scores 110 in first Test innings.
1/9/1935Harishankar Sharma, great educationist, was born at Jaipur.
3/6/1995Arun Tamhankar, great journalist, died.
9/5/1997Mother Teresa, founder of Missionaries of Charity who was awarded with Nobel Prize (1979) and Bharat Ratna, died at the age of 87 due to heart attack late in the evening around 9:30 pm in Calcutta.
11/10/1909Gandhiji replies to Tolstoy, sends his biography by Doke.
12/20/1946Gandhiji completes his month-long sojourn at Srirampur.
5/13/1962Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963) retired from the post of first President.