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Historical Event on 2/6/1827

Shyam Shastri, musician and a great artist of India, passed away at the age of 65 years.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/13/1951Acharya Kishoridas Vajpayee passed away.
10/2/1845First Shipping Company of India started.
5/29/1991P.V. Narasimha Rao elected President of Congress (I).
10/21/1989Sukhdev Singh alias Sukha and Harminder Singh alias Jinda sentenced to death for the murder of former Army Chief Gen. A. K. Vaidya.
8/1/1992S. Rajgopal was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-07-1993.
6/23/1985Air India Jumbo Jet Boeing 747 'Kanishka' which was travelling to Mumbai from Montreal crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after explosion near Ireland. 329 people on board died.
7/24/1994Bodo kills 37 moslems in Bashbari, North Eastern India.
12/28/1981Madras-Penang undersea cable commissioned.
3/17/1999GM Dibyendu Barua and IWM S. Vijayalakshmi (both India) won the men's and women's titles respectively in the Asian Zonal chess championship in Mumbai.
12/20/1990Supreme Court stays Delhi High Court judge Justice Chawla's orders on the Bofors issue.