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Historical Event on 6/1/1944
M. V. Dhurandhar, famous master painter of Maharashtra, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/27/1989 | Hemanta Kumar Mukherjee, noted playback singer and music director, died. |
| 4/12/1993 | Indian ship MV Vishva-Mohini sinks off Spain, 33 killed. |
| 5/22/1992 | India launches its 'Agni' rocket. |
| 1/4/1931 | Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar, great orator, eminent journalist, fighter and one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia, died at London during the first Round Table Conference. He was closely associated to Mahatma Gandhi and took active part in Civil Disobedience Movement. |
| 8/6/1996 | Dr. Raj Kumar was conferred Dada Saheb Phalke award. |
| 6/4/1989 | Melville de Mellow, Eminent broadcaster, died. |
| 12/10/1913 | The Nobel prize for literature was awarded this year to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet from India. |
| 10/4/1977 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee, External Affairs Minister of India, addressed the UNO General Assembly in Hindi language. |
| 10/26/1961 | Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October. |
| 12/25/1964 | Indian Ocean hurricane kills 4,000 in Ceylon, 3,000 in Indian province of Madras. |
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