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Historical Event on 3/6/1775

Raghunath Rao signed treaty of Surat with British ending the first Anglo-Maratha War.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/25/1980Awards regarding Public Honour were re-started by Goverment of India; Mother Teresa was honoured by Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, etc.
8/14/1896Gandhiji published ""The Green Pamphlet"" at Rajkot and then toured to Bombay, Madras, Poona and Calcutta educating Indians in regard to grievances of South African Indians.
1/19/1960Ramchandra Gopal (Dadasaheb Torne), famous film director, passed away.
6/26/1983Five hundred killed or missing as monsoon floods hit the Indian state of Gujarat.
5/18/1912Narayan Govind Chitre, with the help of R. P. Tipnis and Cameraman Johnson, produced a 8000 ft. long theatrical film 'Pundalik', which was directed by Ramchandra Torney alias Dada Saheb Torne. The entire film was shot in a theatre at Mangaldas Wadi in Bombay, where the Sangit Mandali, a professional theatre group, was performing a play 'Pundalik'. The film was released on May, 18 in the Coronation Cinematograph at Girgaum, Bombay.
6/8/199255-60\% polling takes place in the Andhra, Bihar, W. Bengal and Delhi by-elections.
9/8/1897Lokmanya Tilak charged in anti-national activity case.
1/30/1968Makhanlal Chaturvedi, famous Hindi poet, writer and President of All India, passed away.
9/11/1991V. S. Narayan, 'Janmabhumi' Newspaper Group chief, died.
6/20/1946Kashmir authorities arrest President-elect Nehru for refusing to obey an order banning him from the state.