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Historical Event on 3/6/1775
Raghunath Rao signed treaty of Surat with British ending the first Anglo-Maratha War.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/31/1995 | K.P.S. Gill, DGP of Punjab, retires from service. |
| 8/21/1972 | A law was passed for protecting wild animals, including lions and tigers, from extinction. |
| 2/25/1968 | Judge Mohammad Hidayatullah became the Chief Justice of India. He held this office till 16/12/1970. |
| 11/16/1958 | India and U.S.S.R. sign trade agreement to exchange Soviet industrial and agricultural equipment for farm commodities at Moscow. |
| 9/16/1932 | Ronald Ross, bacteriologist and member of Indian Medical Service, died in London. He had also received a Nobel Prize. |
| 3/27/1977 | The government revoked the national Emergency promulgated on Dec. 3, 1971. |
| 2/14/1901 | Sambamurty Pichhu, music teacher, was born. |
| 1/17/1913 | Yadvendra Singh, HH LtG. Maharaja of Patial, cricketer (scored 24 & 60 in only Test India vs England), was born in Patiala, Punjab. |
| 7/31/1993 | Air Chief Marshal Nirmal Chandra Suri PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. |
| 2/23/1946 | Some 300,000 Indians joined in anti-British demonstrations today in the wake of yesterday's violent riots in the city of Bombay. Indian Navy rebels. A day of terror and rebellion saw Indian Navy members turn against their British officers firing machine guns. |
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