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Historical Event on 8/11/1997

135 persons killed in flash floods in Shimla & Kiannaur districts of Himachal Pradesh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/13/1913Tulsi Prasad Khaitan, great industrialist, was born in Chandi village, Bihar .
1/7/1831Heinrich Von Stephan, famous general of postal union and freedom fighter, was born at Pomerania.
10/23/1959Chinese military confrontation with India in Aksai Chin killed 17 Indian soldiers in a clash on the Kashmir border.
3/11/1881Ashley Eden unveiled in Calcutta Town Hall the first statue of Indians Ram Nath Tagore and Dwarkanath Tagore.
2/21/1991Nutan, famous film actress, died at the age of 56 years.
10/31/1955The Prime Minister inaugurated the Cooperative Milk Producers' Union factory at Anand, Gujarat.
11/1/1961First passenger Plane flight AVRO HS748.
2/20/1968Dr Prafulla Kumar Sen and others performed the first ever heart transplantion in Asia. The operation was performed by the Indian surgeons at K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay.
12/15/1976Daily newspaper ""Lokmat"" published it's first Jalgaon edit
8/2/1942Gandhi says that the Japanese might be welcomed in India should they invade due to current Indian discontent.