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Historical Event on 7/6/1998

Salman Khursheed is appointed the new UPCC(I) chief. While Tindivanam K. Ramamurthy is the new TNCC(I) chief, Sat Mahajan has been appointed HPCC(I) president.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/18/1972First Indian Book Fair was organised by National Book Trust in New Delhi.
3/18/1972Sun City India founded by Rao in Jodhpur.
9/16/1931R. Ramachandra Rao, cricket test umpire for one test in 1986-87, was born at Tamil Nadu.
5/2/1968Lok Sabha passed the Public Providend Fund Act.
1/19/1966Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs.
6/23/1997India and Pakistan reach accord on joint working groups to address outstanding issues including Kashmir and Siachen.
5/1/1948Baroda State merged into Bombay Province.
4/1/1918Royal Air Force replaces Royal Flying Corps in Britain.
8/1/1997Viswanathan Anand wins the Credit Suisse Masters chess tournament in Beil.
5/26/1906Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"".