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Historical Event on 11/8/1661

Guru Har Rai passed away. Second son Har Kishan became the eighth Sikh Guru age of 5 years 4 Months. He passed away at the age of 7 years 9 Months.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/4/1997Madhavrao Scindia, Tariq Anwar, Meira Kumar, Oscar Fernandes and R. R. Dhawan appointed AICC general-secretaries by party president Sitaram Kesri.
3/28/1916Ramkrishna Pillai, journalist and social reformer, passed away.
10/5/1997Dr. Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian woman to become an astronaut. (year 1997 or Oct. 5, 1998)
6/11/2000Assailants gun down 12 upper caste persons, including eight of a family in Bihar's Nawada district.
8/28/1904First car rally between Calcutta to Barakpur held.
8/28/1972General Insurance Business was nationalised.
7/25/2000P.T. Usha,Star Indian athlete, announces retirement from International athletics at a press conference in New Delhi.
11/17/1915Vishnu Gopal Pingle was hanged for revolting against the Indian Army in Talegaon prison of Pune.
9/29/1977India and Bangladesh signed settlement for distributing Ganga river water.
3/31/1994The Supreme Court orders closure of 11 industrial units around Taj Mahal.