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Historical Event on 6/5/1659
Dara Shukoh celebrated his coronation at Deorai after the final defeat.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/13/1997 | Grieving India lays to rest Mother Teresa in state funeral in Calcutta in which pomp and splendour is combined with religious rites. |
| 1/26/1950 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963) became the first President of India. He remained President from Jan. 26,1950 to May 13, 1962. |
| 6/1/1959 | N.G. Ranga resigned from the Indian National Congress and took up the leadership of the newly formed Swatantra Party. |
| 7/20/1990 | GOI notifies restrictions on liberal import policy announced earlier. The restrictions will cut the import bill by about Rs. 1000 crore. |
| 2/11/1993 | Kamal Amrohi, famous film producer, director and writer, died at the age of 76 years. He is famous for his Hindi films such as Mahal (1949), Pakeezah (1972) and Razia Sultan (1983). He also established Kamal Pictures (Mahal Films) in 1953 and Kamalistan Studio in Bombay in 1958. |
| 9/8/1953 | Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Premier of Kashmir, was shot at. |
| 9/9/1949 | Hindi was accepted as the national language of India. |
| 12/23/1913 | Gondhavalekar Maharaj, famous saint, died. |
| 7/4/2000 | Volvo's Environmental Prize went to Prof. Amulya K. N. Reddy of India and three others for their work on ''How the world's energy resources can be made to suffice as the population grows''. |
| 1/31/1963 | Peacock declared as National Bird of India. |
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