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Historical Event on 5/11/1888

Asaf Ali, lawyer, nationalist, writer and connoisseur of music and arts, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/11/1888Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2).
4/2/1980Raj Narain expelled from Lok Dal forms Janata (S) Party.
8/5/1907Kashi Nath Pandey, politician and Trade Unionist, was born in Fursatpur Village.
7/15/1986India protests against China's intrusion of six to seven km into the Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh.
2/2/1967US President Johnson orders consignment of 2 mil. tons of food grains to be sent to India.
9/30/2000India's Priyanka Chopra (18) wins the Miss World beauty pageant.
11/25/1956Lal Bahadur Shastri, Railway Minister, resigns from the office or Railway Minitery, taking moral responsibility for Ayyapan rail disaster thus setting a rare example for politicians.
6/24/1996Nanchil K. Manoharan, former DMK Finance Minister, expelled from the party.
11/22/1913Lakshmikant Jha, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir state and international famed ecomonist, was born.
12/16/1999India agrees to Financial System Stability Assessment (FSSA) by the IMF.