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Historical Event on 6/4/1926
Dalai Lama introduces a tax on ears for Tibetans to equip the army. Those with only one ear will pay half the tax.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/7/1831 | Heinrich Von Stephan, famous general of postal union and freedom fighter, was born at Pomerania. |
4/11/1964 | Communist Party of India was divided in two parts. Firstly known as Communist Party of India [CPI], its second fragmentation was named as Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)]. This division was on ideological differences at the international level. |
1/20/2000 | J&K accepts the report of the State Autonomy committee tabled in the Assembly last year. |
11/11/1980 | The Hindustan Times says the 'British have reverted to what they basically are & a small, little people with small, little minds inhabiting a small, little island in the Atlantic.' |
1/21/1882 | Vaman Malhar Joshi, Marathi novelist, was born. |
4/15/1794 | Moropant Paradkar, great poet of Marathi in Peshwa kingdom, passed away. |
12/8/1942 | Hemant Shamsunder Kanitkar, cricketer (batted in two Tests India v WI 1974), was born in Amravati, Maharashtra. |
3/25/1963 | Yagyawalk Bharadwaj, famous botany scientist, passed away. |
9/15/1953 | S. Vijayalakshmi Pandit was elected as the first lady President of the eighth session of the United Nations Organisation's (UNO) General Assembly. |
7/2/1997 | Screening for Hepatitis C made mandatory all over India. |
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