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Historical Event on 6/6/1935
Harry Crews, great US writer and actor (Indian Runner), was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/30/1889 | Acharya Narendra Deo, educationist, freedom fighter and politician, was born at Sitapur, U.P. |
| 2/28/1997 | Finance Minister P. Chidambaram presents an action-packed budget for 1997-98. |
| 5/28/1988 | The first Cultural Exchange Programme was signed between India and China. |
| 8/21/1931 | Pandit Vishnu Dingambar Paluskar, famous singer and the blind musician of Maharashtra, passed away. |
| 12/20/1969 | Nihalsingh Gurumukh, former Chief Minister of Dehli and Governor of Rajasthan, died. |
| 3/25/1987 | Marxist-led alliance gets majority in Kerala and West Bengal elections . |
| 3/1/1962 | Gaya University renamed as Magadh University. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 2/28/1985 | M.G. Katre became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/10/89). |
| 8/9/1971 | Vinodnand Jha, former Chief Minister of Bihar, died. |
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