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Historical Event on 6/9/1957
General Election ( 2nd) of India ends.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/21/1746 | French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais & Dupleix Madras. |
| 8/2/1861 | Parafulla Chandra Ray, chemical expert and great patriot, was born in the village of Raruli-Katipara IN Jessore district. |
| 5/9/1993 | S. Mulgaokar, 82, journalist, passed away. |
| 11/24/1989 | Tendulkar scores a record cricket test 50 aged 16 years 214 days. |
| 11/29/1798 | Neplus Naresh Fardinad Chaturth announced that they will fight against France. |
| 5/15/1949 | Matsya Union formally merged with Greater Rajasthan. |
| 2/28/1963 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, passed away at Sadaqat Ashram, Patna. |
| 2/24/1988 | Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile. |
| 10/31/1984 | Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.' |
| 9/19/1704 | Guru Govind Singh died. |
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