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Historical Event on 7/6/1998
Moshood Abiola, the detained Nigerian politician and presumed winner of the 1993 elections, died in Abuja.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 11/1/1954 | French handed over their territories of Pondicherry, Mahe, Karikal and Yanon to the Government of India. |
| 2/23/1843 | Narendranath Sen, famous journalist, was born. |
| 1/5/1990 | Mohammad Azharuddin was made captain of Indian cricket team. |
| 8/16/1997 | Bodo extremists kill 13 villagers in Nalbari district in Assam. |
| 10/22/1680 | Rana Rajsingh, king of Mewad, died. |
| 9/28/1991 | Shankar Guha Niyogi, an active trade union leader of Madhya Pradesh, was shot dead by unknown assailants. |
| 4/4/1951 | West Germany establishes full diplomatic relations with India. |
| 1/14/1758 | Emperor of England's charter allowed the East India Company to keep to any booty taken in war against the enemies of the king and the company. The confisticated goods, after the war, could be kept with them. |
| 11/5/1920 | Indian Red Cross society was founded in India under Bengal Act VIII. St.John Ambulance Association is a wing of this societywhich directed Improvement of Health, Prevention of Diseases and Mitigation of Suffering activities. |
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