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Historical Event on 10/6/1997

International Commodity Exchange Division of the India Pepper and Spice Trade Association in Kochi opened.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/19/1796Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds.
10/30/1963Pasumpon Muthuramalingam Thevar, nationalist, freedom fighter and social worker, died at Madurai.
1/12/1934Surya Sen (Master Da), revolutionary leader of the Indian Republican Army, who attacked the armoury of Chittagong with 62 men of the Indian Republican Army, was hanged at Chittgong Jail by the Britishers.
7/20/1957India's biggest sheet-glass manufacturing factory formally opened in Hazaribagh, Bihar.
2/10/1921Mahatma Gandhi inaugurated Kashi Vidya Peeth.
8/13/1995Kashmiri separatists behead a kidnapped Norwegian tourist and threatened to kill other hostages unless India freed 15 militants at Srinagar.
12/14/1924Ranbir Raj Kapoor, famous film producer, director and actor, was born.
8/15/1950Earthquake measuring 8.6 on Richter Scale hits Assam in north eastern India claiming 11,000 lives.
4/19/1950Shyama Prasad Mukherji resigned. He was the first Minister of Central Cabinet.
12/1/1921Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader, social reformer and freedom fighter was arrested by the British police for six months and sent to jail.