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Historical Event on 12/6/1993
Samrendra Kundu, former foreign state minister and socialist of Orrisa, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/3/1999 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation. |
| 12/25/1936 | Ismail Merchant, producer (Householder), was born in Bombay, India. |
| 3/2/1913 | Bhavaniprasad Mishra was born. |
| 10/2/1869 | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) born to a Bania (trading caste) family at Porbander, Kathiawar. He was the youngest of the three sons of Karamchand alias Kaba Gandhi, Prime Minister successively in Porbunder, Rajkot and Vankaner States, and his fourth wife Putlibai. |
| 1/1/1967 | Day's play in the Calcutta Test vs West Indies cancelled by riots. |
| 6/4/1902 | Richard Allen, India, field hockey goal tender (Olympic-gold-1928), was born. |
| 1/2/1905 | Jainendra Kumar, famous Hindi novelist and patriot, was born. |
| 3/21/1997 | Seven Kashmiri Pandits gunned down by militants in Sangrampura. |
| 8/20/1933 | Mahatma Gandhi is rushed to the hospital on the fourth day of his latest fast. |
| 4/1/1978 | India's sixth Five-Year Plan commenced. |
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