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Historical Event on 6/11/1998

Chetak helicopter of IAF rescued a Border Security Force Jawan stuck waist deep in quicksand.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/19/1969Indian Government nationalised 14 major commercial banks of India by Presidental ordinance.
1/28/1895Shankarrao Dattatray Dev, veteran Congress leader, Gandhian and Sarvoday leader, was born.
3/6/1962Ambika Chakrovorty, great revolutionary and warrior, passed away.
3/19/1973Mine explosion in Bihar kills 47.
8/20/1885First meeting of the Indian National Congress held.
11/17/1915Vishnu Gopal Pingle was hanged for revolting against the Indian Army in Talegaon prison of Pune.
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
6/4/1955Ministry of Iron & Steel inaugurated.
9/1/1947Indian Standard Time was adopted.
4/3/1926Muslim-Hindu riots destroy temples, killing 12, wounding 100 in Calcutta.