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Historical Event on 6/1/1996

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, former President of India, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/31/1980Nirmal Mukherjee, the last Indian Civil Service Officer, retired from service as Cabinet Secretary.
4/17/1990Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar, India killing 80 people.
1/11/1966Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"".
4/1/1993National Aeronautical Laboratory becomes National Aerospace Laboratories.
1/1/1931Gopi Chand Narang, great educationist and Urdu scholar, was born at Dukki.
8/25/1992Mi-4 was re-equipped with the mighty Mi-35 Squadron and was renamed as 104-Helicopter Squadron.
4/18/1978Sardar Sobha Singh, famous builder of modern New Delhi, passed away at the age of 90.
7/17/1976Mudliyar A. Ramaswami, Padmabhushan awardee, politician and industrialist, passed away.
6/9/1909Baburao Arnalkar, famous detective story writer, was born.
12/13/2000The Lok Sabha begins the Ayodhya-Babri Masjid debate.