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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 |
| 4/15/1942 | George VI awards the George Cross to the people of Malta. |
| 1/2/1959 | Kirtivardhan Bhagwat Jha Azad, cricketer (Indian off-spin all-rounder in 7 Tests 1981-83), was born in Purnea, Bihar. |
| 8/28/1928 | Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon, noted physicist and scientific advisor to the Prime Minister, was born at Mangalore in Karnataka. |
| 6/12/1972 | D. G. Tendulkar, historian who had written the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, died. |
| 5/27/1930 | India's major cities are seething with unrest following the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi and thousands of his followers in the campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. Civil unrest in Bombay, where at least six were killed and sixty injured. |
| 9/17/1885 | Keshav Sitaram Thakrey, journalist, social reformer and historian, was born. |
| 1/12/1863 | Swami Vivekananda (Narendra Vishwanath Dutta)(1863-1902), dynamic renaissance missionary to West, catalyst of Hindu revival in India and social reformer, was born at Calcutta. |
| 3/21/1997 | Geet Sethi regains Gold Flake Open billiards in Chennai. |
| 3/9/1993 | 14 bus passengers burnt to death in Andhra . |
| 2/9/1991 | India holds the last decennial census of the century. |
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