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Historical Event on 6/6/1997

U.S. Congress honours Mother Teresa with a gold medal.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/29/1927Madhavsingh Solanki, one of the leaders in Gujarat, was born.
6/9/1997At least 50 persons were killed and 5,000 families affected in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Gangktok.
5/6/1971India refutes allegations that it has meddled in Pakistan's civil war.
12/21/1956The Hindu Adoption Sub-Act 1956 was accepted.
2/1/1969Pinaki Chatterji and George Albert Duke on a two-man rowing expedition to the Andamans set out from Calcutta.
11/12/1996Over 350 people die in mid-air collision in Bhiwani district, Haryana.
7/17/1893Lokmanya Tilak was arrested for 18 months.
11/12/1929First Maharastrian Governor Shripad Balwant Tambe was appointed as Governor of Nagpur.
11/12/1929Sultan Mehmud of Ghazni began his first real expedition to India by defeating the Hindu King Jaipal. He won Afghanisthan and Punjab in Peshawar battle. This was the first major Muslim conquest in India.
11/12/1929Muhammad of Bin Quasim (Kasim), Arabs, attacked on Sindh and captured it. Muhammad defeated and killed King Dahir, Hindu king, at Rawar.