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New Delhi: Lal Bahadur Shastri, the second Prime Minister of the country and who gave the slogan of Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, died on 11 January 1966. Shastri, known for his clean image and simplicity, took over as the Prime Minister on June 9, 1964, after the death of the first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. He remained the Prime Minister of the country for about 18 months. Under his leadership, India had given a crushing defeat to Pakistan in the 1965 war. He died under mysterious circumstances on the night of 11 January 1966 after signing an agreement to end the war with Ayub Khan, the President of Pakistan, in Tashkent.
A series of other important events recorded on the date of January 11 in the history of the country and the world
1569: Beginning of the first lottery in England.
1613: Mughal Emperor Jahangir allowed the East India Company to set up a factory in Surat.
1922: Diabetes patients were given insulin for the first time.
1942: Japan captured Kuala Lumpur in World War II.
1954: Birth of Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi, who raised his voice against child labour.
1962: In the northwestern mountainous region of Peru, many villages and cities were buried under its bottom due to the sliding of large rocks of stones and ice, at least two thousand people died in the incident.
1966: The then Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri died in Tashkand. He had gone there to attend the summit with Pakistan.
1972: Bangladesh was recognized by East Germany.
1998: The government of Algeria blamed Islamic extremists for the attacks on two villages. 100 people died in these attacks.
2001: Defense agreement for the first time between India and Indonesia.
2021: The Heritage Conservation Committee approved the construction of the new Parliament House of India.
2021: Pope Francis changes church rules to allow women to read the Gospel during prayer, among other things. (agency)
