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Historical Event on 11/11/1675
Aurangzeb executes Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur thus beginning the Sikh-Muslim feud that continues to this day.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/1/1987 | Bureau of Indian Standards was changed to Indian Standards Institution. |
| 6/15/1949 | Uloor S. Parmeswara Iyer, famous poet, writer, editor and literature, died. He was 72. |
| 7/31/1948 | State Transport Corporation was established in Calcutta. |
| 5/7/1908 | Sudhabala alias Ermaline was born in Bombay. She was a film actress. Her first film was 'Hothal Padmini' (1925). Some of her films are Kicks of Kismet, Tained Virtue, Red Signal, Wise Fool, Hoor-E-Bagdad. |
| 8/9/1969 | Ochterlony Memorial in Calcutta was renamed as 'Shahid Minar'. |
| 5/1/1926 | Jim Corbett killed the notorious man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag at Gulabrai village, who had attacked and killed about 125 people. |
| 7/1/1952 | Olympic Games open at Helsinki. |
| 2/13/1719 | Jahandar Shah was strangled to death and the Sayyid brothers were killed soon after. |
| 6/6/1916 | Lord Kitchener, the premier soldier of the British Empire, passed away tragically last night as the ''Hampshire'', the cruiser on which he was traveling to Russia to boost sagging morale, struck a mine or was torpedoed off the Orkney Islands and sank, drowning all aboard. Life in London came to a standstill, while Paris and Washington were shocked by the news. In the last half-century, through tireless energy and devotion to imperial duty, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 66, commanded in Palestine, Cyprus, Egypt, Sudan, South Africa, and India. Two years ago, he had become the War Secretary. |
| 4/28/1993 | Troops storm police complex in Srinagar and free officials from the rebelling 2000 policemen. |
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