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Historical Event on 4/6/1955

Vinayak Maharaj Masurkar, great Samarth Saint, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/12/1920Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
2/15/1967Fourth General Election of Lok Sabha begins.
2/6/1952George VI (1895-1952), King of the United Kingdom, died of lung cancer at the age of 56 (succeeded by daughter, Elizabeth II). In 1947, His title of Emperor of India was deleted.
7/29/1891Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur and Hindi writer, passed away in Calcutta.
1/22/1922Shanta Buddhisagar, famous Marathi writer, was born.
10/3/2000Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee buys peace with the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee by agreeing to a partial rollback of the hike in prices of petroleum products.
1/2/1953Government set up a Board of Editors under Dr. Syed Mahmood to prepare a history of Freedom Movement in India.
12/25/1969India all out for 163 at Madras vs Australia, Ashley Mallett takes 5-91.
4/8/1950Nehru and Ali Khan sign the Indo-Pakistani Pact.
10/10/1978Rohini Khadilkar, fifteen years old, became the first woman to win the national chess championship. Presently, she is the editor of a leading Marathi newspaper of Mumbai 'Nava Kaal'.