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Historical Event on 6/9/1957

General Election ( 2nd) of India ends.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/6/1939Manmohan Sood, cricketer (scored 0 & 3 in his only Test for India), was born in Lahore.
4/18/1961Pamella Bordes, photographer and model, was born in New Dehli, India.
11/27/1999BJP recaptures the Jaipur Civic body posts by winning 49 out of 70 seats.
1/24/1997Public holiday in connection with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose birth centenary.
6/19/1995India and US officially launch Indo-US Commercial Alliance during US Trade Secretary's visit.
1/24/1980J.S. Bawa became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 28/02/85).
4/17/1999The Vajpayee Government resigns after it loses the confidence vote in the Lok Sabha by one vote - 269 to 270.
1/26/1882Telephone line started working between Mumbai and Calcutta.
11/1/1956Indian Government re-organizes the states according to linguistic principles and inaugurates second Five-Year Plan. The states declared were Madhya Pradesh, Punjab by merging Patiala & PEPSU, Mumbai was divided in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Union Territories namely Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were approved.
12/20/1993Jaichandran Nair, Colonel Neelkantan, died.