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Historical Event on 10/6/1954

Nehru declared the National Health Scheme for the entire country.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/24/1994Bodo kills 37 moslems in Bashbari, North Eastern India.
8/2/1977Jaswinder ""Jas"" Jutla, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
4/27/1857Jamshedji Framji Madan ( J. F. Madan ), founder of India's first Cinema Hall - 'Elphinstone Palace' at Calcutta, Madan & Co. and Parsi Theatrical Company, was born.
2/4/1938Birju Maharaj, famous Kathak Dancer ""Guru"", was born.
6/23/1927All India Radio's broadcasting service started in 1927 by privately owned transmitter at Bombay and Calcutta.
1/29/1983Indira Gandhi names 12 new ministers as Cabinet resigns.
3/28/1997Final phase of repatriation of Chakma and other tribal refugees of the Chittagong Hill Tracts from Tripura begins.
6/18/1966California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else.
11/9/1977Keshavrao Bhole, great music director, passed away.
9/9/1952Kishorlal Ghanshamlal Mashruwala, great thinker and philosopher of Gandhi era, passed away.