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Historical Event on 1/6/1847

Saint Tyagaraja, great musician, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/23/1920King George V signs Home Rule Act.
5/14/1907Muhammad Ayub Khan, Pakistani president, was born.
10/27/1987Vijay Merchant, cricketer (Test average 47.72, 1st-class avg 71), died.
6/20/1939Ramakant Bhikaji Desai, cricketer - pace bowler for India in the 60s, was born in Bombay
9/10/1999Top seeds Bhupathi and Paes finished runners-up in the US Open doubles, losing to Sebastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien in the final.
4/3/1987S.H. Vatsyayan passed away.
5/17/1949India decided with only one dissent vote to remain within the Commonwealth of Nations.
9/27/1977Sanjiva Reddy was elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha. Government revokes the external emergency promulgated on December 3, 1971.
1/9/1976President suspends seven freedoms guaranteed by Article 19 of the Constitution.
10/10/1990Marxist extremists set fire to a crowded train in Andhra Pradesh killing more than 60.