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Historical Event on 6/5/1966
Indian rupee devalued by 36.5 percent.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/19/1979 | Morarji Desai resigns after split in Janata Party. |
| 4/6/1897 | Gandhiji submits long memorial to Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Colonies, regarding landing incidents background. Carries on programme of petitioning local and Imperial authorities, as well as of communicating with British and Indian public men regarding discriminatory laws. |
| 1/2/1987 | Dr. Harekrushna Mahtab, great industrialist, leader and former Chief Minister of Orissa, died. |
| 1/2/1987 | Sikh Guru Amardasji, great social worker and teacher, was born at Basare village near Amritsar district. |
| 4/4/1994 | Ravi Naik, Goa CM, resigns. |
| 2/1/1835 | East India company obtained Darjeeling from the King of Sikkim. |
| 1/4/1994 | Rahul Dev Burman, famous music director better known as 'Pancham Da', died at the age of 56. |
| 2/24/1988 | Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile. |
| 6/11/1931 | Purushottam Vishnu Behre, great editor, story and novel writer, was born. |
| 6/6/1867 | Baba Kharak Singh, freedom fighter, was born at Sialkot. |
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