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Historical Event on 1/6/1997

Sumita Ghosh (CISF) sets a National junior women's record in the standard rifle 3 position in National shooting.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/14/1994LTTE banned for the second time under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.
10/6/1999Sonia Gandhi, Congress(I) president, won the Bellary Lok Sabha seat defeating her BJP rival Sushma Swaraj by a margin of 56,100 votes.
10/6/1999Bahadur Shah captured the fort of Chittor and then marched against the Mughal emperor.
2/16/1992Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated.
6/1/1997New postal rates effective; post card-25 p, inland letter-Re.1, envelope-Rs.2 and Registration-Rs.10.
6/6/1997New economic grouping BIST-EC (Bangladesh-India-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation forum) comes into being.
2/10/1943Gandhi begins hunger strike to protest imprisonment. This strike lasted for 21 days till March 3.
3/5/1922Ebrahim Suleman Maka, Indian cricket wicket-keeper (2 Tests vs West Indies1952), was born at Daman.
3/5/1922Guru Ramdas, Sikh Guru, was born.
10/19/1905Prince and Princess of Wales leave on an official visit to India at London.