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Historical Event on 6/7/1955
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, visited U.S.S.R.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/12/1960 | 783 Sikhs are arrested while demonstrating for an independent Sikh state in New Delhi. |
| 2/28/1997 | The samadhi of Morarji Desai - Abhay Ghat - near Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad to be converted to a national monument, this was decided on Feburary 11. |
| 9/8/1947 | There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 2/26/1971 | Noel David, Hyderabad off-spinner who played ODI in 1997, was born. |
| 9/6/1996 | A Delhi court says there are grounds for framing charges of criminal conspiracy and corruption against L.K. Advani. |
| 8/18/1945 | Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose left Saigon and is believed to have died in a Japanese aeroplane crash at Taihoku Airport in Taiwan. |
| 1/16/1924 | In a tragic ship wreck, Kumaran Asan, famous Malayalam poet & eminent social worker, died. |
| 7/1/1952 | Olympic Games open at Helsinki. |
| 10/10/1964 | Olympics opened at Tokyo |
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