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Historical Event on 6/6/1997
Five killed and 17 injured in a bus explosion in Gurdaspur district of Punjab.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/19/1839 | Aden conquered by British East India Company. |
| 12/30/1935 | Lord Reading, former Viceroy and Governor General of India, died at the age of 76 at UK. |
| 7/1/1992 | Major changes in Exim policy-farming and repacking included under the definition of 'manufacturer'. |
| 8/3/1890 | Sriprakash, freedom fighter, prolific writer and member of the AICC, was born at Varanasi. |
| 3/16/1945 | Ganesh Damodar Savarkar, who was a revolutionary and brother of Swatantriya Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, passed away. |
| 5/1/1996 | International women's master Anupama Gokhale of Bharat Petroleum becomes the first woman in the history of Indian chess to win an all-India level international rating tournament with her bagging the Mohammed Hassan memorial title. |
| 8/3/1930 | Jai Prakash, educationist, was born at Jaunpur. |
| 8/9/1995 | India celebrated 53rd anniversary of Quit India movement. |
| 3/5/1919 | M.L. Kapoor, great industrialist, was born at Lahore. |
| 7/27/1994 | Parliament votes to ban tests for determining the sex of an unborn child, as these tests have resulted in thousands of aborted female fetuses. |
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