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Historical Event on 7/6/1939

Manmohan Sood, cricketer (scored 0 & 3 in his only Test for India), was born in Lahore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/19/1996AIDS deleted from the list of contagious diseases in the Railway Act of 1989.
3/10/2000Nirmal Verma, distinguished Hindi writer, and eminent Punjabi novelist Gurchal Singh selected jointly for the 35th Jnanpith Award for 1999.
11/16/1983Kapil Dev took 9-83 vs West Indies at Ahmedabad. India still lost the game.
11/8/1997India lifts Asia Cup tennis title in Delhi.
6/10/1833Azad Muhammad Jussain, Urdu poet and educationalist, was born.
5/8/1959Dalai Lama will not be allowed to campaign for Tibetan independence in India. India wants to maintain friendly relations with Communist China.
5/1/1966Marathi becomes the official language of Maharashtra.
2/13/1713Sultan Jahandar Shah was strangled to death. Farrukhsiyar captured the throne of Delhi from Jahandar Shah with the assistance of two Sayyid brothers.
9/11/1906Gandhiji addressed a mass meeting of Indians at Johannesburg, where they took oath of passive resistance against the newly promulgated 'Transvaal Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance'.
8/1/1952Yajurvindra Singh Jaswant Singh, cricketer (Indian batsman four Tests 1977-79), was born in Rajkot.