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Historical Event on 6/6/1997
U.S. Congress honours Mother Teresa with a gold medal.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/31/1996 | Joginder Singh became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 30/06/97). |
8/29/1975 | Adinath Lahiri, leading geologist, passed away. |
4/15/1794 | Moropant Paradkar, great poet of Marathi in Peshwa kingdom, passed away. |
2/21/1991 | Nutan, famous film actress, died at the age of 56 years. |
10/29/1958 | Dhondo Keshav Karve, first social and educational reformer of Maharashtra, honoured by Bharat Ratna Award. |
1/20/1948 | 1. Bomb exploded near Birla House during a prayer meeting of Gandhi. 2. Three member UN Commission for investigation/mediation on Kashmir. 3. K.M. Cariappa succeeded Lieutenant General D. Rissell as the Army Commander, Delhi and East Punjab and was responsible for conducting the operation in Kashmir. |
6/27/1906 | Establishment of `Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad'. |
10/10/1957 | Jagdeep', a children's film, won the first prize at the Ninth International Exhibition of Films for Children at Venice. |
4/27/1994 | Supreme Court strikes down section 309 of the Indian Penal Code(which makes suicide a punishable offence)- violative of Article 21. |
6/6/1903 | Hiralal Sen shot the first Indian Advertisment sequences for Jabakusum (hair tonic) and Edward's Tonic. |
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