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Historical Event on 7/6/1999

Sub. Jata Shankar secured 'Silver' medal in 400 Mtr race at the International circuit Athletic Meet held at Trivendrum.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/1/1969Pinaki Chatterji and George Albert Duke on a two-man rowing expedition to the Andamans set out from Calcutta.
11/5/1906Initials of the place of issuance of notes were started to be printed instead of Issuing Circle's name.
11/30/1909Ramesh Chandra died.
8/14/1980Centre nationalizes Maruti company.
4/3/1978Pandit Hridaynath Kunzru, social reformer, politician, passed away. He contributed greatly to public life, fighting against caste system, untouchability etc. He was closely affiliated to the 'Servants of India Society' with Ghokhaleji. He even declined to accept the ""Bharat Ratna"" award conferred on him.
11/29/1962Haryana achieved their target of supplying electricity to 100\% villages.
11/14/1959Nehru rejects China's proposal for a mutual withdrawal of troops from a border buffer zone.
5/6/1952Maria Montessori, pioneer in mordern education, who spent almost 10 years in India, died in Noordwijk aan Zee. The principles and techiques advocated by her are also applied to the education of handicapped children and adult education.
7/8/1928Eighteen died when an East Indian Railroad train was derailed after saboteurs removed part of the tracks.
2/28/1987The National Science Day was celebrated for the first time at the ICMR Headquarters and all its Institutes/Centres in February 1987 through exhibitions, lectures, demonstration campaigns etc. (This has now become an annual event).