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Historical Event on 6/2/1955
A British party scales the third highest peak Mt. Kanchenjunga, highest unclimbed peak.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
3/9/1997 | Mumbai takes Wills Trophy in Mohali. |
10/27/1992 | Veerappa Moily, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, resigned from Bangarappa Government in Karnataka. |
2/25/1977 | Second satellite Earth Station established at Dehradun. |
11/16/1947 | Kamta Prasad ""Guru"" died at Jabalpur. He was renowned for his contribution in the field of Hindi Grammer. He was the editor of a monthly 'Saraswati' and 'Balasakha', children magaz |
1/14/1760 | Eyree Coote, British Army Captain, captured and surrendered Pondicherry, capitulated French General Lally. |
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. |
10/11/1927 | Sarojini Regani, great journalist, was born at Secunderabad. |
5/5/1947 | Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable. |
12/23/1889 | Mehr Chand Mahajan, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born. |
8/15/1918 | Hans Kumar Tiwari, famous poet and translater, was born. |
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