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Historical Event on 10/6/1954

Nehru declared the National Health Scheme for the entire country.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/31/1980Nirmal Mukherjee, the last Indian Civil Service Officer, retired from service as Cabinet Secretary.
10/29/1967Kurtkoti Lingangaunda, great Indian Philosopher, passed away.
12/20/1957Satyajit Ray's 'Pather Panchali' is declared the best film at the San Francisco Film Festival.
8/5/1978Five died and 70 were injured as upper-caste Hindus clashed with untouchables in Maharashtra.
5/26/1926Kankalta, freedom fighter, was born in Bargawadi village at Assam . She was shot when she tried to flur the Indian National Flag in Gopur, Assam.
9/4/1997Dharmavir Bharti, great journalist and editor of Dharamyug, died at 6 am.
9/25/1946Bishan Singh Giansingh Bedi, cricketer (mighty Indian slow left-armer 1966-79), was born in Amritsar. He received the Arjun Award (1969) and the Padmashree (1970).
1/14/1994Marathwada University renamed as Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University.
7/30/1996Delhi High Court rejects Narasimha Rao's petition seeking quashing of 09 order of chief metropolitan magistrate summoning him to appear as co-accused in the $ 100,000 Lakhubhai cheating case.
7/30/1996Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe.