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Historical Event on 2/6/1950
N. R. Pillai was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 13-05-1953.
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| 6/8/1929 | Ventappa Musandra Muddiah, cricketer (Indian off-spinner in 2 Tests 1959-61), was born in Bangalore. |
| 9/28/1929 | Lata Mangeshkar, great playback singer, was born. |
| 3/2/1990 | DMK Front to form government in Pondicherry and Congress (I) in Maharashtra. |
| 6/20/1972 | Paras Laxmikant Mhambrey, great Indian cricket pace bowler (Test v England 1996), was born in Bombay. |
| 1/22/1998 | Second Lieutenant Punit Datta is posthumously selected for the nation's highest peace time gallantry award, Ashok Chakra. |
| 9/18/1803 | Second Anglo-Maratha war under Sir Arthur Wellesley resulted in a crushing defeat of the Marathas at Assaye. The British Christians captured Delhi and acquired control of large parts of India. |
| 11/2/1897 | Sohrab Meharwanji Modi, theatre and film producer, director and actor, was born. |
| 7/1/1938 | Hariprasad Chaursia, famous flute player, was born. |
| 8/3/1993 | Bill to regulate cable TV introduced in Rajya Sabha. |
| 5/18/1966 | Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists. |
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