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Historical Event on 7/6/1944

Mahatama Gandhi was for the first time addressed as 'Father of Nation'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/23/1995400 people, mostly children and their parents, die in a fire that broke out during the Annual Day celebrations of DAV Public School. The fire was suspected to be caused due to electric short-circuit in Mandi Dabwali, Haryana.
3/24/1924Virendrakumar Bhattacharya, Gyanpeeth award winner and Assamia novelist, was born.
5/26/1885Govindagraj (Ram Ganesh Gadkari), great Marathi playwright, comedy author and poet, was born.
9/21/1995Rumors that statues of the Hindu god Ganesh were drinking milk spread in New Delhi.
11/15/1911First meeting of the governing body of the Indian Research Fund Association (IRFA) was held at the Plague Laboratory, Bombay, under the Chairmanship of Sir Harcourt Butler.
3/31/1904British slaughter hundreds of Tibetans.
6/17/1993K. D. Dharmadhikari (Nana), veteran freedom fighter, died.
11/17/1948Despite the scepticism on the part of the US and British advisers concerning the feasibility of the scheme, the first half-dozen HAL-reconditioned B-24s were ready by November 1948 and, on the 17th of that month, No. 5 Squadron was formed with these heavy bombers.
2/3/1921The Evens Report on Indian Cinema 1921' was tabled before the Govt. on February 3.
2/28/1859Surbhi, farmer lady of Dholi Bavli, Central India, who was arrested for helping her son Bheema Nayak in the freedom movement and was jailed in Mahamandaleshwar jail, passed away.