May 6

Today in Indian History
Events for May 6

6-May-1529	Babur Shah, Mughal Emperior, defeated Afghan Nawab Nasrat Shah, king of Bengal, on the banks of the Gand and the Ghaghra river.
6-May-1589	Mian Tansen, famous singer of Akbar’s court, died at Gwalior.
6-May-1680	Chatrapati Rajaram Maharaj was crowned.
6-May-1775	Nanda Kumar, king of Calcutta, was arrested.
6-May-1861	Motilal Gangadhar Nehru, great Indian lawyer, political leader and social reformer, was born at Agra.
6-May-1910	Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Emperor of India, died suddenly of pneumonia at Buckingham Palace tonight. He ruled Britain for nine years. Power passed immediately to his son George, the Prince of Wales, who will rule as King George V. The 68-year-old monarch’s sudden death threw his country into a state of shock. Edward had apparently caught a cold during a visit the past weekend to the wet grounds of his estate at Sandringham.
6-May-1916	Edward VII passed away at London.
6-May-1922	Chhatrapati Rajarshi Shahu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer of Kolhapur, passed away at Bombay. He was 48.
6-May-1944	Mahatma Gandhi was released unconditionally from his last imprisonment from Aga Khan Palace at Pune.
6-May-1946	Bhulabhai Desai, great politician, passed away.
6-May-1948	India rejected the Security Council’s plan for UN supervision over plebiscite in Kashmir.
6-May-1952	Dr. Rajendra Prasad re-elected the President of India “”Rashtrapati”” after the first Presidential election held under the Indian constitut
6-May-1952	Maria Montessori, pioneer in mordern education, who spent almost 10 years in India, died in Noordwijk aan Zee. The principles and techiques advocated by her are also applied to the education of handicapped children and adult education.
6-May-1967	Dr. Zakir Hussain elected President.
6-May-1971	D. Sen became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 29/03/77).
6-May-1971	India refutes allegations that it has meddled in Pakistan’s civil war.
6-May-1993	Violence in Orissa state secretariat, CM manhandled.
6-May-1997	12 persons killed and eight seriously injured in two blasts in east Delhi.
6-May-2000	Saurav Ganguly wins the Ceat International Cricketer of the Year award 1999-2000.
6-May-2000	Benoy Krishna Chowdhury (89), veteran freedom fighter and prominent CPI(M) leader, died at a Government Hospital in Calcutta.