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Important events of history that took place in India and elsewhere on today’s date.

7 June

🇮🇳 In India

1920 Indian Red Cross Society was established.

1932 M S Narasimhan, Indian mathematician, was born. His focus areas included number theory, algebraic geometry, representation theory, and partial differential equations.

1974 Mahesh Bhupathi, former doubles world No. 1 tennis player, was born in Chennai. In 1997, he became the first Indian to win a major tournament.

1979 Bhaskara I, an Indian Earth resources meteorology satellite, was launched.

🌎 Elsewhere

1929 Vatican City became an independent state with the signing of the Lateran Treaty.

1952 Orhan Pamuk, Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born.

1954 Alan Turing, English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist, died.

1970 E M Forster, English novelist, died. His novels included A Room With a View (1908) and A Passage to India (1924).

1975 The first Cricket World Cup began. England hosted the first edition of the event, which today has become one of the world's most important sporting events. The West Indies entered the history books as the first Cricket World Champions.

⭐ Significance

World Food Safety Day is celebrated on this day to draw global attention to the consequences of contaminated food and water to the health.

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