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Historical Event on 6/1/1959
N.G. Ranga resigned from the Indian National Congress and took up the leadership of the newly formed Swatantra Party.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/14/1955 | Henry Heras, famous artist and an active member of the Indian Historical Records Commission, died in Bombay. |
| 6/30/1931 | June Thorburn, actress (Touch & Go, Children Galore), was born in Kashmir, India. |
| 8/15/1993 | Five more Doordarshan channels launched. |
| 4/15/1992 | D. T. Lakdawala, former member of Planning Commission, passed away. |
| 10/29/1996 | Kamini' (Kalpakkam Mini), a 30 KW research reactor which uses man-made Uranium-233 as fuel and the only working reactor of its kind in the world, attains 'criticality'. |
| 9/6/1905 | Satyacharan Chaterjee, great Indian Geologist, was born. |
| 2/15/1924 | Shankarrao Bajirao Patil, great leader of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 8/30/2000 | A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announced a package for small units raising the ceiling on loans from Rs. 10 lakhs to Rs. 25 lakhs. For the handloom sector, a separate scheme costing Rs. 447 crores was also finalised. |
| 2/5/1970 | Kauai Aadheenam, Hindu monastery, site of Kadavul Hindu Temple, Saiva Siddhanta Church headquarters, San Marga Sanctuary and editorial offices of Hinduism Today were founded today at Hawaii's Garden Island. |
| 5/30/1919 | Rabindranath Tagore returned back the honour as a protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. |
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