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Historical Event on 2/6/1955

55 miners die in explosion in Bihar State.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/3/1970Chonira Beliappa Muthamma, first women career diplomat, appointed ambassador to Hungary.
4/10/1996The marketing of Salman Rushdie's novel 'The Moor's Last Sigh' in India was cleared by the Central govt.
5/25/1899Nazrul Islam, revolutionary and Bengali poet, was born in Churulia village of Burdwan district.
10/25/1999US Energy Secretary Bill Richardson arrives.
3/11/1994The Supreme Court upholds sacking of BJP Governments; Balasaheb Deoras quits as RSS Chief; Rajendra Singh alias Rajju Bhaiya to succeed.
10/31/1963Krishna Menon, resigned from the post of Defence Minister of India, due to Chinese attack.
11/15/199237 die in a landslide at Meghamalai near Chinnamanur.
5/31/1970Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to.
4/14/1990L. P. Poarbosa sworn in as CM of Goa.
6/14/1886Orphanage for little girls was established.