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Historical Event on 2/6/1932
Veena Das, revolutionary freedom fighter, shot Stenly Jackson, Governor of Calcutta at the convocation ceremony of B.A. degree, but Jackson was afraid and bend down, thus the aim was missed.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/12/1992 | Centenary celebrations held at Kasturba Hospital for Infections diseases. (CIVIC). |
| 7/2/1970 | Pandit Kunjilal Dubey, freedom fighter, educationalist and politician, passed away. |
| 2/21/1987 | Pakistan President Gen. Zia visits India. |
| 5/16/1926 | Manik Varma, famous singer, was born. |
| 5/16/1926 | Akbar removed 'Jeziya' or toll-tax for his non-Muslim subjects. |
| 5/1/1995 | SAARC endorses South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and establishes a South Asian Development Fund (SADF) for the economic and technical development of the subcontinent. |
| 1/29/1997 | Supreme Court rules that water is a 'mineral'. |
| 3/5/1919 | M.L. Kapoor, great industrialist, was born at Lahore. |
| 9/4/1862 | Kaminikumar Chanda, social reformer and politician, was born. |
| 2/20/2000 | India-born Mr. Ujjal Dosanjh (52), leader of New Democratic Party, sworn in Canada's first Indo-Canadian Premier of British Columbia. |
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