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Historical Event on 6/7/1997

At least 37 persons were feared killed in a fire in ''yagyashala'' at Thanjavur Big Temple.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/4/1926Dalai Lama introduces a tax on ears for Tibetans to equip the army. Those with only one ear will pay half the tax.
4/15/1980Six more private sector banks nationalized.
3/20/1993Memon brothers, the prime suspects in the Bombay bomb blasts, escape from Dubai.
5/23/1996In second phase of elections in Kashmir valley, Anantnag and Baramulla parliamentary constituencies go to the polls.
8/28/1973India and Pakistan signed P.O.W Accord paving way for release of 90,000 Pakistanis.
2/17/1994Bihar leader Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav and Mizoram's Dr. C. Silvera inducted into Union Cabinet.
11/3/1998The first geo-scientific data centre of the country is inaugurated at the Geological Survey of India.
7/25/1955Indian Government declared in Lok Sabha that Portuguese's were asked to close their offices in New Delhi.
7/25/1955Akbar's Vajir-E-Ajam 'Bairam Khan' was assassinated at Patan, Gujarat by an Afghan assassin Mubarak Khan Lohani ( whose father was slain by Bairam Khan) in the battle of Machiwara.
1/14/1989'Poorna Kumbh', India's largest religious gathering held once in 12 years, begins at Allahabad.