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Historical Event on 10/6/1974

Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, great freedom fighter, barrister, leader, politician, nationalist and member of the Lok Sabha, passed away. He resigned as the defence minister soon after the Chinese aggression.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/28/1977Shantiprasad Jain, industrialist, died.
8/20/1988Earthquake measuring 6.5 on Richter Scale strikes India and Nepal. Thousands killed.
5/27/1992M. L. Manchanda, AIR's Patiala engineer who was kidnapped by Babbar Khalsa militants, was found executed.
9/16/1997General Manager of Tata Tea remanded to judicial custody on charges of abetting and aiding ULFA.
3/3/1978Shaliwahan Shaka Hindu Calender started.
10/29/1920Jamia Milliya Islamia was founded by Dr. Jakir Husain and his collegues at Aligarh. 'Khilafat' and the Non- Cooperation Movement were an integral part of policy animating.
1/11/1966Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Prime Minister (1964-66), passed away at Tashkent, U.S.S.R. at 1:32, age 61. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously.
4/1/1882Savings Bank Postal system was introduced.
10/31/2000The Income Tax Department 'indicts' five cricketers - Kapil Dev, Ajay Jadeja, Manoj Prabhakar, Nikhil Chopra and Ajay Sharma - for tax evasion and concealment of income earned through ""dubious sources'
11/14/1995Supreme Court gave patients the right to drag careless doctors to Court.