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Historical Event on 1/6/1976

Baliram Bhagat elected Lok Sabha Speaker.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/30/1896Gandhiji sails for South Africa with wife and children.
11/27/1984Percy Norris, British Deputy High Commissioner in Bombay, assassinated in Bombay.
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11/8/1919Madan Theatres Ltd. was founded under a Joint Stock Company at Calcutta. Their maiden venture 'Bilwamangal' was released on November 8, 1919 at the Cornwallis Theatre, Calcutta.
6/10/1997Three Indians - Kumaramangalam Birla, Ratan Tata and Dhirubhai Ambani - figure in the list of Asia's top 100 super rich.
6/25/1996Sunderlal Bahuguna, noted environmentalist, ends 74-day repentance fast at Rajghat following assurance from PM Deve Gowda.
9/10/1923Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali child litterateur, passed away.
1/11/1966Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"".
10/17/1919The Khilafat Movement was launched under the leadership of Maulana Jauhar Ali, Maulana Shaukat Ali and Abdul Kalam Azad.
3/5/1999The indigenously-built multi-barrel rocket launcher ''Pinaka'' is successfully test-fired at Chandipur-on-sea in Orissa.