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Historical Event on 6/6/1907

John Morley, U.K. Government State Secretary, declares ""it will not withdraw from India under any circumstances"".

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/28/1964A slow-moving funeral cortege containing the body of Jawaharlal Nehru inched through the streets of New Delhi today. A million and a half Indians lined the route to pay final respects to their beloved leader.
5/18/1966Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists.
6/9/199881 persons are killed as cyclone hits the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat and Jalore district of Rajasthan. Subsequently, the toll is put at 934 in the Kutch-Saurashtra region alone.
9/24/1914Janardan Swami was born.
8/19/1976Nagarjun Sagar University established in Andhra Pradesh.
1/6/1997Sumita Ghosh (CISF) sets a National junior women's record in the standard rifle 3 position in National shooting.
4/18/2000The Board of Control for Cricket in India adopts a six-point code of conduct for the players.
11/30/1990Admiral Laxmi Narayan Ramdas takes over as Chief of Naval Staff.
6/4/1958The three-men Indian Mountaineering group successfully climbed the high Peak in the Garhwal Hills Range.
7/4/1986Sunil Gavaskar celebrated his 115th Test in cricket at Edgbaston.