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Historical Event on 3/6/1915

Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore met for the first time at Shantiniketan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/6/1980Janata Party splits again; members with RSS links form the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). A. B. Vajpayee becomes its first President.
5/8/1997Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion.
1/5/1890Ganendra Mohan Tagore died.
4/4/1786In British Parliament, Berk alleged 11 corruption charges against Indian Governor General Warren Hastings.
6/5/1995Manmohan Singh re-elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam.
11/15/1621Jahangir captured Kakda Fort.
7/5/1882Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), classical singer and Muslim mystic, was born. He was instrumental in bringing Sufism to the music.
8/12/1928The Olympic Games hosted by Amsterdam fully realized Pierre de Coubertin's vision: 'the nations of the world in friendly competition'. After a succession of Olympics dominated by North America and Western Europe, Amsterdam welcomed more than 3,000 competitors.
5/17/1927A.N. Radhakrishnan, great educationist, was born.
5/22/1989IRBM 'Agni' Missile launched successfully from Chandipur, Orissa.