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Historical Event on 1/6/1989

Satwant Singh (24) and Kehar Singh (54) executed for the murder case of Smt. Indira Gandhi in Tihar Jail at New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/8/1932Sankhla Badluram, great industrialist, was born in Delhi.
1/9/1923Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur, passed away.
5/15/1998The Indian Army at Chandilora (Tangmey) captured 15 kg charas, 400 gm dust of charas and 12 kg leaves of charas.
11/9/1897Kotamaraju Rama Rao, founder-editor of Lucknow's ""National Herald"", was born at Chirala. He was referred by Gandhiji as 'Fighting Edit
7/31/1993Air Chief Marshal Nirmal Chandra Suri PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
11/20/1981Bhaskara-II, India's second experimental remote sensing satellite, was launched by Russian launch vehicle Intercosmos. This provided experience in building and operating a remote sensing satellite system on an end-to-end basis.
4/1/1992The 79,698 crore Eighth Plan launched.
3/5/1999Geet Sethi won the 1999 World matchplay billiards championship in Midsomer Norton.
9/16/1916M. S. Subalaxmi, famous classical singer and Bharat Ratna awardee, was born.
11/29/1644The Massachusetts General Court issued a call for local pastors to learn the dialects of neighboring Indian tribes as an aid toward converting them to the Christian faith.