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Historical Event on 5/6/1861
Motilal Gangadhar Nehru, great Indian lawyer, political leader and social reformer, was born at Agra.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/1/1931 | Gandhi chiefs order campaign of civil disobedience to continue. |
| 12/20/1866 | Panchkadi Banerjee, famous journalist and editor, was born. |
| 5/19/1954 | The Govt. of India constituted a National Film Board. |
| 8/1/1994 | The Railway passenger insurance scheme comes into force. |
| 10/16/1906 | Shankar Damodar Chitale, famous author and teacher, was born in Secundarabad. |
| 5/9/1992 | Killer brew claims 175 lives in Orissa, Excise Minister Prasanna Kumar Acharya resigns. |
| 9/27/1873 | Vithalbhai Patel, great freedom fighter, social worker, nationalist leader, politician and President of the Central Assembly, was born at Karmasad, Gujarat. |
| 9/24/1777 | Sarfoji Bhosle, king of Tanjawar, was born. |
| 2/23/1946 | Some 300,000 Indians joined in anti-British demonstrations today in the wake of yesterday's violent riots in the city of Bombay. Indian Navy rebels. A day of terror and rebellion saw Indian Navy members turn against their British officers firing machine guns. |
| 11/11/1924 | Rusi Sheriyar Modi, cricketer (Indian batsman in post-War years), was born in Surat, Gujarat. |
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