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Historical Event on 1/6/1847

Saint Tyagaraja, great musician, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/6/1995Arun Tamhankar, great journalist, died.
5/24/1960Dr. Ida Sophie Schruder, founder of famous 'Vellore Hospital', passed away in Kodaikanal.
7/15/1992Lucknow High Court stays any construction activity near the disputed temple in Ayodhya.
2/19/1891Amrita Bazaar Patrika became a daily newspaper.
10/21/1934Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan and his friends established the 'Congress Socialist Party' and Acharya Narendra Dev was its President and JP was its Gen. Secretary.
1/6/1997Sumita Ghosh (CISF) sets a National junior women's record in the standard rifle 3 position in National shooting.
5/1/1926Jim Corbett killed the notorious man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag at Gulabrai village, who had attacked and killed about 125 people.
2/1/1969Pinaki Chatterji and George Albert Duke on a two-man rowing expedition to the Andamans set out from Calcutta.
4/26/1995SAARC decides to launch South Asia Preferential Trade Area (SAPTA).
2/3/1997Major fire reduces Calcutta Book Fair to ashes.