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Historical Event on 6/6/1997

Five killed and 17 injured in a bus explosion in Gurdaspur district of Punjab.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/14/1886Orphanage for little girls was established.
9/30/1961Chandrakant Sitaram Pandit, occasional Indian cricket wicket-keeper (late 80's), was born in Bombay.
8/13/1951First test flight of 'Hindustan Trainer-2' (H.T.2) which was indigenously designed and manufactured in India.
10/16/1968Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene.
5/2/1982Mohun Bagan retains Federation Cup (football) beating Mafatlal at Calicut.
5/27/1964Gulzarilal Nanda was entrusted the responsibility as Acting Prime Minster of India. He held this office till June 9, 1964. He is till date the only Acting Prime Minster of India.
3/30/1945Dr. J. J. Rawal, joint director of Nehru Planetarium of Mumbai, was born.
7/23/1903Chandra Shekhar Azad was born Today in 1903
2/18/199247 die in Tamil Nadu's Kumbakonam Mahamakham stampede.
9/20/1940Saroj Lalwani, journalist and printing press director, was born.