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Historical Event on 1/6/1847
Saint Tyagaraja, great musician, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/5/1851 | Geological Survey of India was established in Calcutta. |
| 3/17/1999 | GM Dibyendu Barua and IWM S. Vijayalakshmi (both India) won the men's and women's titles respectively in the Asian Zonal chess championship in Mumbai. |
| 2/12/1990 | The Berlin Wall is taken down February 12. Germany is reunited over the next year. Warsaw Pact is dissolved. |
| 8/3/1960 | Gopal Sharma, great Indian cricket off-spinner (2 Tests 1984-85), was born in Kanpur. |
| 4/24/1942 | Shri Dinanath Mangeshkar, famous Marathi singer, nationalist, musician and actor, passed away at the age of 41. |
| 4/24/1942 | Mahmud Gawan was appointed as Prime Minister, an office which he held till his execution. |
| 3/27/1977 | The government revoked the national Emergency promulgated on Dec. 3, 1971. |
| 2/14/1994 | V. P. Singh elected JD Chief in place of S.R. Bommai who stepped down. |
| 3/23/1940 | All India Muslim League passed resolution for the formation of Muslim homeland i.e. Pakistan. |
| 1/28/1894 | Anandibai Prabhakar Jayawant, famous Hindi writer, was born at Baroda. |
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