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Historical Event on 5/11/1987

President's rule imposed in Punjab.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/7/1761Third Battle of Panipat: Ahmed Shah Abdali, the ruler of Afghanistan, defeats the Marathas; Maratha imperialism checked.
8/20/1995India and China decide to withdraw four army battalions from Chu Sumdurong valley near the Line of Actual Control.
2/28/1712Bahadur Shah I died at Lahore at the age of 72 in the war of succession.
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
10/5/1957Nehru becomes the first recipient of the key of Hiroshima Peace City.
2/9/1984Balasarasvati, eminent classical Karnatic singer and Bharat Natyam dancer of worldwide acclaim, passed away in Madras.
1/11/1613Emperor Jahangir in a proclamation permitted East India Company to establish factories in Surat. And the first British factory was established under Thomas Aldworth.
12/30/1953The Untouchability (Offences) Bill published in the Gazette of India.
2/3/1928Simon Commission comes to India under Lord Irwin, after which serious rioting started on his arrival.
8/15/1982Doordarshan's national programme and the first nationwide colour transmission started by Delhi Doordarshan.