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Historical Event on 6/10/1946
Gandhiji refused to enthuse over allied victory as it was not a ""victory of truth over false-hood"".
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/22/1958 | Admiral R. T. Katari was appointed as the first Indian Chief of the Naval Staff. |
| 7/21/1934 | Chandrakant Gulabrao Borde, cricket batsman (55 Tests for India 1959-67), was born in Pune. |
| 7/29/1984 | Troops were sent to Hyderabad to quell communal riots. |
| 4/4/1990 | Hindi film 'Bagh Bahadur' received the best feature film award of 1989. |
| 9/26/1932 | Dr. Manmohan Singh, former finance minister, economist and Governor of R.B.I., was born. |
| 8/25/1917 | The first significant step towards the Indianization of the Army was initiated when seven selected Indians, serving in the Army, were granted King's Commission in the Infantry and the Cavalry. Before the World War ended, two more Indians, who previously held temporary commissions, were granted King's Commission. |
| 2/22/1946 | Curfew imposed till 9 p.m. by the British in Bombay as rioting and looting continued for the second day. |
| 8/5/1939 | In the first case to be brought under Prohibition laws, a railroad passenger was today convicted of possessing a bottle of brandy in Bombay. |
| 1/8/1884 | Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society. |
| 12/25/1924 | Atal Krishna Behari Bajpayee, Prime Minister of India and a veteran journalist, was born at Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. |
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