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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 06/10/1246 |
Allauddin Masood Shah, Sultan of Dehli, was thrown off the throne. |
| 06/10/1832 |
Edwin Arnold, English writer (Light of India), was born. |
| 06/10/1833 |
Azad Muhammad Jussain, Urdu poet and educationalist, was born. |
| 06/10/1888 |
Balraj Bhalla, revolutionary, was born. |
| 06/10/1890 |
Sunday introduced as a weekly holiday. |
| 06/10/1891 |
Gandhiji called to the Bar. |
| 06/10/1900 |
Jayantnath Chaudhary, former General of Indian Army General, was born. |
| 06/10/1908 |
Mary Clubwala Jadhav, politician and social worker, was born. |
| 06/10/1928 |
Papan Ramchand Panjabi, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1978-81, was born in Mumbai. |
| 06/10/1942 |
77 Mountain Brigade was raised at Sagar, Madhya Pradesh. |
| 06/10/1946 |
Gandhiji refused to enthuse over allied victory as it was not a ""victory of truth over false-hood"". |
| 06/10/1955 |
Prakash Padukone, internationally famous Badminton player, was born. |
| 06/10/1957 |
Bhai Vir Singh, great Punjabi poet, novelist, social reformer, musician, humanitarian and Padma Bhushan awardee, died. |
| 06/10/1959 |
Tyagmurti Goswami Ganeshdutt, social worker, died near Hardwar. |
| 06/10/1966 |
MIG aeroplanes were designed at Nashik. |
| 06/10/1984 |
Top army commander killed in Bihar; Sikh troops desert unit. |
| 06/10/1987 |
Jeevan, famous Hindi film actor, died. |
| 06/10/1997 |
Three Indians - Kumaramangalam Birla, Ratan Tata and Dhirubhai Ambani - figure in the list of Asia's top 100 super rich. |
| 06/10/1997 |
18 persons were killed and 10 wounded by suspected National Liberation Front of Tripura militants at Thalchhara near Agartala. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 04/01/1963 | Delhi Special Police Establishment acquired its popular current name Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) through a Home Ministry resolution passed. |
| 05/10/1982 | Karnataka Kranti Ranga led by Devaraj Urs comes into being. |
| 10/05/1868 | Laxmi Narayan Barua, Assamia novelist, was born. |
| 06/28/1993 | A multi-millionaire industrialist, main financier of smuggler Veerappan,and 6 Veerappan-men arrested. |
| 08/09/1902 | King Edward VII was crowned the emperor of Great Britain at Westminster Abbey after the death of his mother Queen Victoria. Earlier, he had held a grand function in which nearly 4,56,000 invitees celebrated this royal feast. |
| 06/28/1857 | Nana Sahib proclaimed himself as the Peshwa and called for the total extermination of the British power of India at Bithoor. |
| 06/01/1947 | Balbhimraj Gore, litterateur and Hindi critic, was born. |
| 05/05/1906 | Ursula Jeans, actress (I Lived With You, Over the Moon), was born in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. |
| 06/04/1972 | First Environment Day. |
| 03/29/1996 | SC asks All India Indira Congress to modify its name as All Indira Congress (Tiwari). |
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