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Historical Event on 6/5/1994
Shakti Singh at Bangalore sets record for DT in 61.72.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/18/2000 | Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, said there would be no cuts in Income Tax rates in the next budget, and signalled that the reforms process will continue. |
| 1/20/1999 | Renowned playwright Girish Karnad is selected for the 1998 Jnanpith Award. |
| 1/14/1995 | Ban on VHP re-imposed. |
| 3/12/1930 | Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence. |
| 1/14/1851 | Peshwa Bajirao Raghunath, last Peshwa of Marathas, passed away at Brahmawart. |
| 12/10/1984 | Justice Thakkar Commission appointed to enquire into the assassination of Indira Gandhi. |
| 6/16/1950 | Mithun Chakravorty, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
| 8/17/1947 | The first British troop leaves for England after Indian independence. |
| 9/2/1998 | Nishant, the pilotless training aircraft developed by DRDO, is successfully flown from Chandipore. |
| 1/4/1966 | ndo-Pak Summit, the peace talk between Pakistan and Indian leaders, started at Tashkent. The prominent personalities were Lal Bahadur Shastri and Gen. Ayub Khan. |
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