ON 6 OCTOBER IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on October 6, 2019
1661: Death of guru Har Rai, seventh Sikh guru, born on January 16, 1630
http://www.sikhs.org/guru7.htm
1879: During the Second Afghan War, battle of Charasiab
http://britishbattles.com/second-afghan-war/charasiab.htm
http://maiwandday.blogspot.fr/2015/01/the-british-army-at-charasiab-october.html
1893: Birth of Meghnad Saha, Indian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic who died on February 16, 1956
http://scientistsinformation.blogspot.fr/2010/01/meghnad-saha-1893-1956.html
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/meghnad-saha.html
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/6th-october-1893-meghnad-saha-indian-astrophysicist-is-born
1946: Birth of Vinod Khanna, Indian actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinod_Khanna
1950: Battle of Markham Gartok, during the invasion of the Tibet by China
1955: Ghulam Mohammad, the governor-general of Pakistan is replaced by Iskander Mirza
http://www.storyofpakistan.com/person.asp?perid=P012
http://www.storyofpakistan.com/person.asp?perid=P015
1982: Birth of Meiyang Chаng, Indian actor, singer, anchor and dancer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiyang_Ch%D0%B0ng
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTpwk8koqCc
1983: In India, after serious attack by Sikh nationalists against police and Hindu people, the state of Punjab is put under direct control of the central government
1993: In Pakistan’s elections, Benazir Bhutto, the leader of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), captures the most seats in the nation’s Parliament, thus she will be Prime Minister for the second time (her first tenure was from 1988-1990)
http://www.dawn.com/news/802238/an-overview-of-1993-general-elections-a-pile-of-dirty-linen
http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2241_93.htm