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Historical Event on 5/11/1987

President's rule imposed in Punjab.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/2/1907Riots break out in Rawalpindi and East Bengal, spreading to the Punjab.
7/25/1987Ramaswamy Venkataraman became the eighth President of India. He held this office till July 25, 1992.
1/12/2000T. S. Krishna Murthy is appointed Election Commissioner in place of G.V.G. Krishnamoorthy who retired.
9/29/2000The Government raises the prices of petroleum products across- the-board while cutting import and excise duties on crude oil, diesel and motor spirit (petrol).
12/25/1995First major multi-organ transplant in the country performed in Apollo Hospital in Madras.
11/21/1993R.F. Botha, Foreign Minister, moots a grouping of Indian Ocean countries.
4/6/1606Khusru Prince and his father Jahangir rebelled and fled from Agra.
6/2/1993Kurla-Kochi Express rams into goods train near Jolarpet in which 22 were killed and 100 injured.
7/4/1933Mahatma Gandhi sentenced to one year imprisonment.
8/30/1979Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'.