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Historical Event on 6/6/1867
Baba Kharak Singh, freedom fighter, was born at Sialkot.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/28/1937 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovers the white dwarf maximum mass limit. |
| 11/8/2000 | India wins the men's team title in the World Carrom championship in New Delhi. |
| 11/22/1999 | A.B.Vajpayee, Prime Minister, expands cabinet as four more ministers join the ministry including Arun Shourie. |
| 7/4/1991 | Fourth test of missile 'Prithvi'. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 8/18/1990 | Pandit Narayan Chaturvedi, senior Hindi litterateur, died. |
| 1/23/1954 | Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad declares that the State of Kashmir is a part of India. |
| 4/13/1963 | Babu Gulab Rai, famous hindi critic, passed away. |
| 2/2/1915 | Khushvant Singh, famous journalist, was born. |
| 4/22/1840 | James Princes, British research scientist and archeaologist, passed away. |
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