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Historical Event on 11/6/1946

P. S. Shivswami Iyyer, great politician and administrator, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/24/1993Khanprabha Bhaduri, famous Bengali poet and writer, died.
4/27/1996General Election (11th) of India begins.
11/21/1947First postal stamp of indepedent India of three and half annas denomination was started. Major General Cariappa took over from Lieutenant General Sir Francies Tulker as the Army Commander, Eastern Command, in the rank of Lieutenant General.
11/10/1990Two Burmese youth hijack a Thai Airlines Airbus with 221 passengers on board to Calcutta.
6/7/1965Ashutosh Kali, great revolutionary, passed away.
11/19/1991Two national commissions on women set up.
2/2/1977Jagjivan Ram, Cabinet member of 30 years, resigns to protest emergency rule causing minor split in Congress party.
2/10/1986Pope John Paul II ends visit to India.
6/13/2000Major General Manuel Saavedra of Uruguay appointed Chief Military observer of the U.N. Mission monitoring the LoC in Kashmir.
4/11/1942All-India Congress party rejects British offer of dominion status at New Delhi.