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Historical Event on 6/5/1984
Operation 'Blue Star' was launched by Indira Gandhi. Indian commandos stormed into Sikh's holiest gurudwara Golden Temple in Amritsar to flush out the terrorists and other anti-government elements. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and over 325 people were killed in the temple. Thus a great rebel arose all over the nation and specially in Punjab.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/19/1925 | Dinesh Singh, freedom fighter and politician, was born at Kalakankar (U.P). |
| 12/14/1936 | Kamalkant Bhattacharya, Assamese thinker and author, passed away. |
| 1/15/1997 | Pakistan's pilotless surveillance aircraft intrudes into Indian air space for the first time. |
| 8/29/1923 | Hiralal Ghasulal Gaekwad, cricket all-rounder who played Test for India in 1952-53, was born in Nagpur. |
| 10/14/1989 | Election Commission accepted Shiv Sena as a political party. |
| 6/9/1998 | Gujarat was hit by a cyclone killing 1,000 people in six days. |
| 11/16/1986 | Second SAARC summit held at Bangalore. |
| 5/13/1905 | Fakruddin Ali Ahmed, the fifth President of India, was born at Delhi. |
| 8/15/1947 | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first Indian Prime Minister of free India. |
| 6/9/1909 | Baburao Arnalkar, famous detective story writer, was born. |
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