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Historical Event on 1/6/1847

Saint Tyagaraja, great musician, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/3/1995President's rule in J&K extended for another 6 months.
7/24/2000S. Vijayalakshmi becomes the first Indian woman Grandmaster in the International Grandmasters chess tournament held in Hyderabad.
5/26/2000In a significant development, the Government decides to allow disinvestment up to 60 per cent equity of Air India.
9/5/1997CBI chargesheets former Railway Minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief for possessing assets disproportionate to his income.
5/26/1983R. V. Marathe, father of Postal Index, passed away.
4/15/1997Interest rate on domestic term deposits brought down from 10 to nine per cent by RBI.
4/11/1999India successfully test-fires the extended range ''Agni-II'' missile, bridging a key gap in its minimum nuclear deterrent profile.
2/7/1983Eastern News Agency was established in Calcutta .
5/20/1677Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj won the fort of Jingi.
2/23/1946Some 300,000 Indians joined in anti-British demonstrations today in the wake of yesterday's violent riots in the city of Bombay. Indian Navy rebels. A day of terror and rebellion saw Indian Navy members turn against their British officers firing machine guns.