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Historical Event on 6/11/1984

574 Sikh army deserters arrested.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/15/1986India protests against China's intrusion of six to seven km into the Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh.
7/21/1911Umashankar Jethalal Joshi, famous Gujarati poet, Hindi writer and educationist, was born at Bamna in Gujarat.
8/15/1947Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as the first British Governor General of Indian Union and occupied this office till June 20, 1948.
7/1/1982MGR inaugurates Tamil Nadu's noon meal programme for poor children.
10/30/1947The government rejects Kashmir's decision to join India in Pakistan.
3/7/1987Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first batsman to score 10,000 test runs in cricket a match against Pakistan at Ahmedabad.
8/11/1893First Hindu-Muslim riots in Maharashtra.
4/17/1975Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, India's second president, died at Madras.
10/1/1854Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26.
3/10/1998India 'A' beats Pakistan 'A' by 58 runs in the fourth test to clinch the rain-hit series 1-0 at Karachi.