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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 06/02/1756 |
Fort William, the English stronghold in Bengal, was surrendered to Siraj-ud-Daulah. |
| 06/02/1900 |
Sri Ram Sharma Acharya, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, passed away. |
| 06/02/1908 |
Sri Aurobindo, freedom fighter, was arrested in Manik Tala Bomb explosion case. |
| 06/02/1953 |
Mountaineer Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and his Nepalese Sherpa guide Tensing became the first men to conquer Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain. The two reached the pinnacle of Everest, more than 29,000 feet above sea level, at 11.30 a.m. |
| 06/02/1955 |
A British party scales the third highest peak Mt. Kanchenjunga, highest unclimbed peak. |
| 06/02/1965 |
The second of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India). |
| 06/02/1975 |
India's First Spunge Iron project inaugurated at Vijaywada. |
| 06/02/1975 |
Devendra Mohan Bose, famous Scientist of Physics, passed away. |
| 06/02/1984 |
Army takes control in Punjab as 22 people are killed in Sikh struggle for autonomy. The state is declared a restricted area under the Foreigners' Act. |
| 06/02/1986 |
One thousand Sikhs arrested at demonstrations in Punjab. |
| 06/02/1988 |
Raj Kapoor, famous film actor, director and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, passed away. |
| 06/02/1990 |
Union Government set up a tribunal to settle the Cauvery water issue between Tamil Nadu & Karnataka. |
| 06/02/1990 |
Sri Ram Sharma Acharya passed away. (27-6-91). |
| 06/02/1991 |
Dinesh Goswami, former Law Minister, passed away in a road accident in Assam. |
| 06/02/1992 |
The government accepts all the 15 recommendations of the Janakiraman Committee which unearthed massive collusion of banks in the security scam. |
| 06/02/1993 |
Kurla-Kochi Express rams into goods train near Jolarpet in which 22 were killed and 100 injured. |
| 06/02/1997 |
Saudi Boeing 747 Jumbo with 348 people on board misses the Meenambakkam international airport, Chennai and forcelands at Tambaram Air Force strip. |
| 06/02/2000 |
Justice A. M. Ahmadi, former Chief Justice of India, appointed Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/05/1931 | Gandhiji leaves England for India. |
| 10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen (Indian Nobel Laureates), the economist-philosopher, awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his contribution to welfare economics. |
| 05/27/1857 | Nana Sahib was captured at Kanpur. |
| 10/02/1422 | Firuz Shah Bahmani died. |
| 11/17/1948 | Despite the scepticism on the part of the US and British advisers concerning the feasibility of the scheme, the first half-dozen HAL-reconditioned B-24s were ready by November 1948 and, on the 17th of that month, No. 5 Squadron was formed with these heavy bombers. |
| 03/22/1977 | Janata and its allies gain absolute majority in Lok Sabha. |
| 02/13/1861 | Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians. |
| 04/23/1751 | Gilbert Aliat Minto, governor general of East India Company, was born. |
| 10/06/1893 | Meghnad N. Saha, astrophysicist, was born. In 1920, he developed the 'Thermal Ionization Equation', which has remained fundamental in all works on stellar atmospheres. This equation has been widely applied to the interpretation of stellar spectra, which are characteristic of the chemical composition of the light source. |
| 08/01/1957 | M. K. Vellodi was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 04-06-1958. |
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