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Historical Event on 1/6/1664
Chhatrapati Shivaji attacked on Surat.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/17/1996 | Sheila Kaul, H.P. Governor, indicted in house allotment scandal, should be removed from her post, says Supreme Court. |
| 2/28/1930 | Strike by workers of the Nizam state railways over bonus. |
| 9/8/1887 | Swami Sivananda, (1887-1963), religious leader, Hindu universalist renaissance guru, author of 200 books and founder of Divine Life Society with 400 branches worldwide, was born in the quiet village of Pattamadai, District Tirunelveli. |
| 12/4/1993 | Bahadur Prasad wins the second gold medal in 5000 m in Asian Track and Field meet in Manila. |
| 7/12/1994 | India expels Pak diplomat; Indian attache tortured in Islamabad. |
| 3/7/1911 | Sachchitanand Hiranand Vatsyayan, (Agyeya), modern Hindi literary journalist, freedom fighter and the winner of Jnanpith Award of 1979, was born. |
| 7/23/1898 | Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, well known Bangla novelist, was born. |
| 5/4/1932 | Many are arrested as Congress agents picket Bombay post offices in celebration of Gandhi Day. |
| 6/1/1786 | Madras General Post Office started functioning. |
| 1/26/1997 | Mizoram becomes a dry state, the fourth, after Gujarat, AP and Haryana. |
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