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Historical Event on 5/11/1987

President's rule imposed in Punjab.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/12/1931Triloki Nath Madan, educationist and journalist, was born at Srinagar, Kashmir.
11/23/1983Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), the seventh biennial Commonwealth Summit, meets in New Delhi.
2/27/1999Union Budget presented. Fiscal deficit cut to 4.4 per cent.
4/10/1937Shridhar Vyanktesh Ketkar, creator of Maharashtra Gyankosh and Sociologist, passed away.
5/22/1927M. S. Shivsankaraiyah, cricket test umpire for 3 tests from 1974-77, was born at Andhra Pradesh.
12/8/1932Indian Air Force Act was passed.
6/5/1984Operation 'Blue Star' was launched by Indira Gandhi. Indian commandos stormed into Sikh's holiest gurudwara Golden Temple in Amritsar to flush out the terrorists and other anti-government elements. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and over 325 people were killed in the temple. Thus a great rebel arose all over the nation and specially in Punjab.
11/17/1994North Eastern Council decides to include Sikkim in the Council.
12/1/1894Bhim Sen Sachar, freedom fighter, leader and Chief Minister of Punjab, was born.
4/14/1988Ashok Kumar, actor, recieved the Dada Saheb Phalke Award.