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Historical Event on 10/6/1779

Elphinston, historian and administrator of Mumbai province, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/19/1895Munshi Newal Kishore, great social worker, educationist, nationalist, philanthropist and a pioneer industrialist, passed away at the age of 59.
1/28/1999Central Zone won the Deodhar Trophy, defeating South in their final in Agartala.
4/18/1971Gavaskar makes 220 in second innings vs West Indies after 124 in first.
10/31/1966Mihir Sen swam Panama Canal in 34 hours 15 minutes.
8/1/1970Bhopal University was established.
12/31/1966Bishen Singh Bedi made his Test Cricket debut vs West Indies at Calcutta.
2/10/1979Itanagar was declared as capital of Arunachal Pradesh.
4/12/1992The 350-tonne Buddha statue salvaged from the Hussain Sagar where it had sunk in 1990.
6/18/1974Govinddas Seth, Hindi litterateur and politician, died.
10/16/1905Bengal was partitioned by Lord Curzon on the pretext of it being too big to administer. Instead of dividing it on the basis of non-Bengali areas, the division was on the basis of Hindus and Muslims. Britishers thought that would succeed in increasing Hindu - Muslim tensions. The tremor of partition was felt throughout India and was regarded as an insult and challenge to Indian Nationalism. A movement was launched by the moderates. New method of protests 'Swadeshi and Swaraj' became the slogan of the common man and the whole of India was drawn into the national movement.