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Historical Event on 1/6/1847

Saint Tyagaraja, great musician, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/1/1934Raju V. Vikram, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1984-87, was born at Karnataka.
2/6/1954Kashmir Assembly accepts re-unification with India.
9/28/1984First floodlights lit ODI between India and Australia held outside of Australia at New Delhi.
6/14/1990Veerendra Verma sworn in as the new Governor of Punjab and Administrator of Chandigarh.
7/4/1897Alluri Seetaram Raju, freedom fighter, was born in a Kshatriya clan in Andhra Pradesh. He is rememberred as one of the great sons of India in the annals of Indian history who fought valiantly for his motherland in the early period of the freedom movement.
12/27/1998Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen unveils his plans to set up a charity trust with the award money for development of education and health in India and Bangladesh.
4/16/1918Spike Milligan, famous actor and comedian (Digby, 3 Musketeers), was born in India.
2/20/1976Production of Crude Oil started from offshore Bombay High near Mumbai.
9/6/1965Full scale warfare broke out all along the international border between West Pakistan and India. Pakistani troops advanced towards the Indian town of Akhnur in Kashmir and Pakistani paratroopers raided Punjab.
12/14/1984First MIG 27M aircraft assembled by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. takes off.