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Historical Event on 6/10/1984

Top army commander killed in Bihar; Sikh troops desert unit.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/14/1953Y. N. Sukthankar was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-07-1957.
4/3/1994S.Bangarappa, former CM, launches his Karnataka Congress Party.
12/16/1999Likhiram Karve, Madhya Pradesh's Minister for Transport, is hacked to death by naxalites.
11/24/1969Guru Nanak University established at Amritsar, Punjab.
7/6/1927Vyankatesh Dingambar Madgulkar, great Marathi story writer and novelist, was born.
10/6/1998Railways wins the BOB-Senior National Hockey championship for women defeating Haryana in the final at Chennai.
1/10/1616Sir Thomas Row, first English Ambassador, submitted his identification to Emperor Jahangir at Ajmer.
7/18/1857The Calcutta, Mumbai and Madras Universities were established.
2/22/1997Jockey Mark Gallagher shot at and injured in Bangalore.
3/18/1922Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause.