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Historical Event on 06/06/1596
Sikh Guru Har Govindji, the sixth sikh guru, was born. He fashioned a military role for the Sikhs.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/12/1897 | Major Gegeral Himmat Singh, Governor of Himachal Pradesh and Duputy Defence Minister, was born. |
| 9/17/1885 | Keshav Sitaram Thakrey, journalist, social reformer and historian, was born. |
| 4/2/1948 | Communist leader S.A. Dange arrested in Bombay. |
| 3/29/1857 | Sepoy Mangal Pandey shot the first bullet of 1857 Indian mutiny in the barracks of Barrackpur near Calcutta against British Empire. This was the starting of the mutiny. |
| 12/28/1998 | India and Sri Lanka sign an agreement to establish a bilateral free trade area, after the visiting Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee, have sorted out the differences that held up the negotiations on it in the past. |
| 6/1/1998 | Petrol price is raised by Re.1 per litre. |
| 1/24/1958 | First international Film Festival started in Mumbai. |
| 2/24/1936 | Laxmibai Tilak, famous marathi poet, passed away. |
| 7/13/1974 | India's first one-day international was played vs England at Headingley. |
| 8/15/1999 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, says Agni-2 to be inducted in the defence arsenal. |
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