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Historical Event on 6/2/1965
The second of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India).
Other Historical Dates and Events |
9/15/1967 | Ramkrishnarao Burgula, Chief Minister of Hyderabad, died. |
3/23/1942 | Japanese forces occupy Rangoon, Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean. |
5/26/1998 | Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, economist, was awarded the 1998 Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidmeiny Foundation. |
3/23/1919 | Subhadra Joshi, freedom fighter, was born. She took active participation in Salt and non cooperation movement. She also motivated the freedom movement through her newspaper ""Hamara Sangram"". |
1/1/1903 | Sen also produced the first publicity films of India--""Jaba Kusum Hair Oil'' and ''Edward's Anti-malaria Specific''. He also filmed the celebrations of the Coronation of King Edward VII at Calcutta. |
6/23/1993 | RBI cuts minimum lending rate by 1%. |
6/13/1992 | Purushottam Diwakar Dhavle, famous journalist, passed away. |
9/7/1965 | U.S. suspends military aid to India and Pakistan. |
6/23/1984 | An Air-India jumbo jet plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland today, killing all 329 people on board. Indian officials said the crash apparently was caused by a bomb placed aboard the jetliner by a Sikh extremist group as retaliation for an army raid. |
12/24/1905 | Sen Triguna, educationist and technologist, was born. |
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