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Historical Event on 6/6/2000
Abhijit Kunte wins the National `A' chess championship at Mumbai.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/20/1828 | Brahmo Samaj, the first movement to initiate religio-social reforms, was founded by Ram Mohun Roy (1772-1833) in Calcutta. Influenced by Islam and Christianity, Roy denounced polytheism, idol worship, repudiated the Vedas, avataras, karma and reincarnation, caste and more. The first session of Adi Brahmo Samaj was held in the rented house by Kamal Bose of Chitpore Road in Jorasanko area in Calcutta. |
| 3/1/1924 | Naresh Mehta was born. |
| 9/30/1997 | Gen. V. P. Malik takes over from Gen. Shankar Roychowdhury as Chief of Army Staff. |
| 9/1/1978 | Air Chief Marshal Idris Hasan Latif, PVSM, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/Aug/1981. |
| 10/15/1961 | Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', famous Hindi poet, writer, editor, social worker and litterateur, died in Allahabad. |
| 9/14/1971 | Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, died. |
| 5/3/1927 | Riots between Sikhs and Muslims in Lahore claims 14 lives and leaves 100 injured. |
| 9/17/1876 | Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay was born in Debanandpur village. |
| 12/6/1987 | MiG-29, re-christened `Baaz', inducted into the Indian Air Force. |
| 5/25/1965 | Independent India had further clashes with Pakistan in 1965 and 1971, one over the intractable Kashmir dispute and the other over Bangladesh. A border war was also fought with China in 1962 in the North-Eastern region, which resulted in the loss of Aksai Chin in Ladakh and smaller areas in the North-east. India continues to dispute sovereignty over these areas. |
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