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Historical Event on 6/7/1606

Guru Arjundev, fifth Guru of Sikhs, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/1/1958Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership given to Acharya Bhave.
10/30/1999G.V.G. Krishnamurthy, former Election Commissioner, seeks enhanced security in the wake of threats to his life.
4/18/1914Jamshedji R. Patel, cricket Test Umpire for 9 tests from 1948-59, was born in Mumbai.
3/16/1998Sonia Gandhi is elected chairperson of the Congress(I) Parliamentary Party.
2/4/1974Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924.
11/10/2000R.M. Shankara and Rashmi Kumari lift men's and women's title in the World carrom championship in New Delhi.
4/5/1940Charles Freer Andrews, a Christian Missionary, died in Calcutta. He is also referred as ""Deenabandhu Andrews"".
10/27/1923Arvind Navinchandra Mafatlal, famous industrialist, was born.
3/23/1986The first women's company of Central Reserve Police Force camp was raised in Durgapur.
5/15/1878Sivnath Shastri and Ananda Mohan Bose, under the leadership of the younger group of Brahmo Sama, rebelled and started Sadharan Brahmo Samaj.