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Historical Event on 1/6/1987
An International Conference to commemorate the 75 anniversary of the African National Congress opens in New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/23/1924 | Venkatraman Narayan Swamy, cricketer (one Test v NZ in 1955, DNB, 0-45), was born in Calicut. |
| 6/24/1897 | Padmashree Pandit Omkarnath Thakur, famous music director of Gwalior Gharana, was born at Gujrat. |
| 1/6/1989 | Satwant Singh (24) and Kehar Singh (54) executed for the murder case of Smt. Indira Gandhi in Tihar Jail at New Delhi. |
| 6/23/2000 | Indian journalist Palagummi Sainath gets Amnesty International Global award for human rights journalism.. |
| 1/15/1949 | General K. N. Kariappa became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief. He was the first Indian to reach to this post in Indian Army. In 1956, he was designated as Chief of the Army Staff - General, later Field Marshal. This event is commemoratively observed as Army Day. |
| 6/22/1910 | Mohommed Hussain `Azad', great Urdu poet, eassy writer and critic, died. |
| 4/12/1912 | Kirpal Singh Narang, social reformer and educationist, was born at Amritsar (Punjab). |
| 1/24/1996 | H.K.L. Bhagat, senior Congress politician and former minister, arrested in connection with a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case. |
| 2/25/1938 | Farokh Manekshaw Engineer, great Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1961-75), was born in Bombay. |
| 1/16/1989 | Prem Nazir, famous actor of more than 620 Malayalam films, died at the age of 59 yrs. |
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