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Historical Event on 5/6/1680
Chatrapati Rajaram Maharaj was crowned.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/1/1879 | Swami Vivekanand established Ramkrishna Mission. |
| 9/25/1990 | Prafull Chandra Sen, former Chief Minister of West Bengal and Gandhian leader, died in Calcutta. He was 94 years old. |
| 11/1/1983 | Rajiv Gandhi, 48, who was chosen to succeed his assassinated mother, was sworn in as Prime Minister in New Delhi today. Across the Jamuna River, in a Sikh slum, evidence was found of the enormous political problems the new Prime Minister faced. The bodies of at least 95 Sikhs were discovered. The Indian army had also been ordered into nine other cities. Religious warfare between Sikhs and Hindus had claimed at least 1,000 lives since Indira Gandhi was assassinated. The security guards who killed her were both Sikhs. US Secretary of State George Shultz, who attended the funeral, assured the new Prime Minister of US interest in a ""strong and stable India."" US-Indian relations had been strained recently because of United States support for Pakistan. Shultz called for a ""renewed positive trend"" in re |
| 7/18/1993 | Rail, road traffic disrupted. |
| 4/10/1935 | Vasudevaru Kesavaru (K.V. Manalikkera), famous writer and poet, was born at Madras. |
| 2/28/1988 | Jaydev, famous music director, passed away. |
| 4/8/1774 | Narayan Rao's posthumous son, Madhav Rao, was seen as a challenge to Raghunath Rao only when he was 10 days old. |
| 3/12/1942 | British troops vacate the Andaman in Gulf of Bengal. |
| 10/1/1903 | Sachindev Burman (S. D. Burman), famous film music director, was born. |
| 5/15/1992 | BSE closed. |
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