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Historical Event on 4/6/1955
Vinayak Maharaj Masurkar, great Samarth Saint, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/28/1973 | India and Pakistan signed P.O.W Accord paving way for release of 90,000 Pakistanis. |
| 9/23/1908 | Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
| 10/31/1984 | Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.' |
| 4/5/1990 | Mrs.Sheela Flather, an Indian national, becomes the first Asian to be nominated to the House of Lords. |
| 11/19/1982 | 9th Asian Games started in Delhi. |
| 8/25/1996 | 194 pilgrims die of cold at the cave temples of Amarnath . |
| 4/3/1700 | Sikandar, former sultan of Vijapur, passed away at Satara in the imprisonment of Mughals. |
| 8/25/1997 | Cabinet approved the draft of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) which was to replace the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA). |
| 7/4/1991 | Fourth test of missile 'Prithvi'. |
| 10/1/1995 | Hastimal Firodia, astrologer and industrialist, died. |
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