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Historical Event on 1/6/1989

Satwant Singh (24) and Kehar Singh (54) executed for the murder case of Smt. Indira Gandhi in Tihar Jail at New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/12/1972Vote gives Indira Gandhi 70 \% of regional seats.
7/25/1995India reaps a record harvest of food grain of 189.77 million tonnes ('94, 95).
4/5/1993G. V. Iyer's Sanskrit film 'Bhagavad Geeta was adjudged the best film at the National Film Awards.
5/17/1991Prabhakar Machve, great litterateur, passed away.
5/28/1965Fire and explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad, India kills 400.
4/22/1993Air India engineers call off their 56-day-old strike.
12/11/1963Kewalam Madhav Panikkar, veteran politician and famous historian, passed away.
6/13/1997At least 60 persons were feared killed and several injured in a fire in Uphaar Grand cinema in South Delhi.
4/24/1980Baba Gurbachan Singh, Nirankari chief, assassinated. His son named as the new chief.
5/5/1946Simla Conference in session from May 5 to May 12; Gandhiji's deliberations prove anfractuous.