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Historical Event on 6/6/1997
Five killed and 17 injured in a bus explosion in Gurdaspur district of Punjab.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/7/1861 | Guru Dev Rabindranath Thakur alias Tagore, novelist, painter, educationist and freedom fighter, was born in Calcutta. |
| 11/2/1999 | The Delhi HC dismisses a plea against Sonia Gandhi seeking deletion of her name from the register of Indian citizenship. |
| 8/13/1993 | Rama Rao vows not to return to the house unless the government is ousted. |
| 11/7/2000 | The BJP firebrand Uma Bharti makes a triumphant return to the Union Ministry as Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs and Arun Jaitley gets elevated as Cabinet Minister in a mini expansion. Maj.Gen. (Retd) B. C. Khanduri takes oath as Minister of State for Transport and Highways. |
| 7/7/1896 | The premier show of the 'Marvel of the Century', first cinema show India, arranged by the Representatives of French Lumiere brothers- Louis and August Lumiere, was held at Watson Hotel in Bombay. The regular shows, however, started from July 14, 1896 at the Novelty Theatre. This show advertisment appeared in the 'Times of India', carrying details of a film show to be held for the first time on Indian soil. |
| 3/3/1978 | Origin of Saka Era (India). |
| 8/3/1998 | 35 persons were killed as Govind Towers at Bandra in Mumbai collapsed. |
| 3/3/1999 | Four members of the forward Bhumihar community and alleged members of the Ranbir Sena are gunned down by an armed squad of the People's War Group in Bhimpura village of Jehanbad district in Bihar. |
| 1/18/1959 | Miss Meera Behn, follower of Gandhi, left India for good. |
| 1/18/1932 | Shyam Nandan Kishore, great educationist, was born at Muzaffarpur. |
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