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Historical Event on 6/2/1900

Sri Ram Sharma Acharya, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
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11/17/1915Vishnu Gopal Pingle was hanged for revolting against the Indian Army in Talegaon prison of Pune.
9/5/1979Earl of Mountbatten's funeral held in Burma.
9/4/1983INSAT-1B runs into snag, its solar array fails to deploy fully.
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9/10/1920Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal.
3/13/2000Parliament approves TRAI Bill seeking to bifurcate it into a Tribunal and a Regulator, with the Rajya Sabha passing the measure by a voice vote.
5/26/2000Prabhakar G. Surur (93) died in Mumbai.
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7/1/1997Prime Minister inaugurated India's first Science City in Calcutta.