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Historical Event on 6/1/1993

Premkumar Sharma, MLA of Bhartiya Janata Party, was assassinated.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/2/1996Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand beats Garry Kasparov in Rapid Chess tournament in Geneva.
8/15/1947At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect.
4/30/1996CBI concludes after 11 1/2 years of investigation that no espionage has taken place in what was dubbed the `ISRO spy scandal case'.
8/18/1990Pandit Narayan Chaturvedi, senior Hindi litterateur, died.
8/7/1998The Government announces a banking and foreign exchange package for development of the information technology and software industry following the recommendations of the National Task Force.
6/10/1984Top army commander killed in Bihar; Sikh troops desert unit.
12/17/1933Lala Amarnath scores a century (118) in his Test Cricket debut.
7/17/1893Lokmanya Tilak was arrested for 18 months.
3/18/1948Eknath Dhondu Solkar, cricketer (India 1969-77, brilliant short-leg fielder), was born in Bombay. He is recipient of Arjun Award (1973).
9/18/2000President K. R. Narayanan presents the Dada Saheb Phalke award for the year 1999 to film maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee.