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Historical Event on 6/1/1944
M. V. Dhurandhar, famous master painter of Maharashtra, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/8/1966 | Rameshwari Nehru, freedom fighter and social worker, died at 80 years in New Delhi. She founded ""Stree-Darpan"" Magazine in 1909 and was president of ""Indian Women Association"". She had received Lenin Peace Prize in 1961 for her humanitarian services for upliftment of the down |
| 11/25/1992 | Mamata Banerjee, Union Minister of State for Sports, resigns to fight Bengal CPM. |
| 6/23/1984 | An Air-India jumbo jet plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland today, killing all 329 people on board. Indian officials said the crash apparently was caused by a bomb placed aboard the jetliner by a Sikh extremist group as retaliation for an army raid. |
| 7/29/1993 | Two bills seeking to delink religion from politics and to empower the EC to debar parties with religious names introduced in Lok Sabha. |
| 7/14/1854 | Mahendranath Gupt, follower of Ramkrishna Paramahans, was born. |
| 8/19/1996 | Gujarat's expelled BJP leader Shankersingh Waghela forms a new party called 'Rashtriya Janata Party'. |
| 10/17/1919 | The Khilafat Movement was launched under the leadership of Maulana Jauhar Ali, Maulana Shaukat Ali and Abdul Kalam Azad. |
| 10/26/1946 | 27 die as violence between Hindus and Muslims continued in Calcutta. |
| 6/6/1916 | Lord Kitchener, the premier soldier of the British Empire, passed away tragically last night as the ''Hampshire'', the cruiser on which he was traveling to Russia to boost sagging morale, struck a mine or was torpedoed off the Orkney Islands and sank, drowning all aboard. Life in London came to a standstill, while Paris and Washington were shocked by the news. In the last half-century, through tireless energy and devotion to imperial duty, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 66, commanded in Palestine, Cyprus, Egypt, Sudan, South Africa, and India. Two years ago, he had become the War Secretary. |
| 5/1/1992 | C. Arjun, famous music director, passed away. |
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