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Historical Event on 2/6/1932
Veena Das, revolutionary freedom fighter, shot Stenly Jackson, Governor of Calcutta at the convocation ceremony of B.A. degree, but Jackson was afraid and bend down, thus the aim was missed.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/11/1856 | Lievens Constantly, Flemish missionary in India, was born. |
| 6/13/1966 | 60 people were killed in a collision between two suburban trains of Bombay. |
| 4/24/1996 | BSE index reaches 3869.87, a new 18-month high. |
| 9/29/2000 | A special court convicted former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then cabinet colleague Buta Singh in the JMM MPs' bribery case. Nine others got benefit of doubt. |
| 4/12/1991 | Lok Sabha elections announced for May 20, 23, 26; Punjab Assam, J&K polls deferred. |
| 8/15/1997 | K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta. |
| 2/10/1846 | British forces under Hugh Gough defeated Sikhs in the Battle of Sobrahan in India. |
| 4/20/1971 | Air India started Boing 707 Jumbo Jet flight between Bombay and London. |
| 4/4/1947 | San Francisco's Henry Grady chosen the first U.S. ambassador to India. |
| 1/16/1920 | Nani Palkhiwala, famous law expert, was born. |
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