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Historical Event on 10/6/1997
Abhijit Kunte wins Asian Junior Chess title.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
11/15/1949 | Nathuram Vinayak Godse and Narayan Dattatreya Apte were hanged in Ambala Jail for Gandhi's murder. |
5/13/2000 | Lara Dutta (21), who said beauty pageants give women a platform to ''voice our choices and opinions'' is named Miss Universe 2000 in the Cyprus capital Nicosia. |
9/17/1934 | Gandhiji announced his decision to retire from politics from October one to engage himself in the development of village industries, Harijan service and education through basic crafts. |
11/9/1710 | Reynier de Klerk, governor-general of Dutch-Indies, baptized. |
2/23/1932 | The N. W. Frontier province is created. |
3/3/1924 | Mustafa Kamal Attaturk abolished the caliphate and established a nationalist government and thus Khilafat Movement ended without achieving its aim. |
2/26/1976 | V. S. Khandekar was honoured by Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Award for the novel 'Yayati'. |
8/15/1990 | GOI declares Prophet Mohammed's birthday a national holiday. |
5/7/1950 | 81 people died in a rail crash at Patna. A sabotage was suspected. |
2/4/1974 | Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924. |
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