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Historical Event on 6/6/1981
The worst-ever railway accident took place in Bihar when a train plunged in Samastipur river.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/22/1877 | Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great painter, philosopher, linguist, critic, art researcher in the East, was born at Colombo in Sri Lanka. |
| 11/29/1953 | Benegal Narsing Rau, foremost Indian Jurist of his time, passed away at Zurich. He performed some very prominent duties towards the nation. He was Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and a judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice at Hague. |
| 11/1/1991 | J.N. Dixit appointed the next Foreign Secretary. |
| 10/1/1992 | Broadcasting of Zee TV started. |
| 12/25/1974 | Indian Aeroplane Jumbo 747 was hijacked and taken over to Rome. |
| 4/1/1936 | Orissa state was formed as a province of British India separating from Bihar. |
| 7/10/1927 | Ganga Ram, great social reformer and founder of Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi, died in England while functioning as an active member of the Royal Commission on Agriculture. He was against dowry and child marriages and advocated widow re-marriage and also established institutions for vocational education and education for adults. |
| 10/24/1851 | First official telegraph line was opened between Calcutta and Daimond Harbour spanning 33.8 km. |
| 3/27/1996 | President and Governors of respective states issue notifications for elections to the 11th Lok Sabha and 6 State Assemblies. |
| 3/27/2000 | After more than two-and-a-half-years, a Delhi court resumes trial in the St. Kitts forgery case following Delhi High Court's order upholding the lower court's verdict on framing of charges. |
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