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Historical Event on 4/6/1664

Harkhishan Singh, Sikh Guru, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/26/1982First Boeing 707 of Air India `Gaurishankar' was crashed at Sahar Airport (Bombay).
11/27/1946London announces parley on India; Muslims accept, Hindus decline.
12/20/1956Saint Gadgebaba died.
6/24/1885Tara Singh, freedom fighter and leader of Akali Dal Master, was born in the village Haryal, District Rawalpindi.
6/1/1993Speaker disqualifies four Ajit group MPs.
4/1/1989Bengal regains Santosh Trophy by beating Kerala.
4/3/1966First Indian-made computer commissioned in Jadavpur University campus.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
3/19/1997BJP and BSP agree for a coalition government in Uttar Pradesh.
9/23/1990World Bank clears Rs.1,200 crore aid for Sarovar Dam rejecting objections raised by environmental groups.