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Historical Event on 2/6/1996

Supreme Court upholds election of CPI (M) leader O. Bharathan to Kerala Assembly from Edakkad (91).

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/24/1985Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sikh leader Sant Harchand Singh Longowal of Akali Dal signed a peace contract known as 'Punjab Accord' thus ending the four-year agitation in Punjab.
4/10/1919Miss Mercia Sherwood, an English teacher, was assaulted by a mob in Amritsar. Brig. General. R.E.H. Dyer had given instructions to beat her.
1/11/1966Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"".
2/13/1713Farrukh Siyar becomes Emperor of India after capturing Red Fort.
2/12/1987Mahamayaprasad Sinha, former Chief Minister of Bihar, passed away.
8/15/1950Earthquake measuring 8.6 on Richter Scale hits Assam in north eastern India claiming 11,000 lives.
4/18/1971Air India's first Jumbo Jet Plane passenger Boeing 747 named 'Emperor Samrat Ashok' was landed on Santacruz Airport at Bombay.
10/4/1907Riots in Calcutta.
2/16/1992Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated.
3/7/199922 persons are killed and six injured when an AN-32 transport aircraft of the IAF crashes at Pappankulam near Indira Gandhi International Airport in south-west Delhi.