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Historical Event on 6/4/1947
Dharmanand Damodar Kosambi, internationally famous Pandit of Buddhism, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/2/1954 | Chandernagar, former under French possession, was made a part of West Bengal. |
| 8/15/1997 | K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta. |
| 5/9/1907 | Two thousand dacoits riot in eastern Bengal. |
| 1/26/1882 | Telephone line started working between Mumbai and Calcutta. |
| 6/18/1993 | Advani takes over as party President. |
| 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. |
| 12/12/1999 | No transparency in judicial appointments, says Justice Kuldip Singh, retired judge of the Supreme Court. |
| 11/19/1994 | Aishwarya Rai, selected 'Miss World' at the age of 21 in the beauty contest held at the 44th convention at Sun City, South Africa . |
| 8/9/1893 | Shivpujan Sahai, famous Hindi story writer and novelist, was born at Bihar in a middle class family. |
| 10/24/1955 | Ghulam Ahmad Hasan Muhammad Parkar, cricketer (Indian batsman vs England 1982), was born in Kalusta, Maharashtra. |
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