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

6 July

🇮🇳 In India

1787 The Indian Botanical Garden was established in 1787 at Shibpur in West Bengal.

1901 The birth of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, an acute nationalist politician, educationist and founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh.

1959 Vellore Hospital successfully underwent open heart surgery for the first time.

2006 The Nathula Pass, which had been closed since the war between India and China, was opened for business after 44 years.

🌎 Elsewhere

1885 Louis Pasteur successfully tested an anti-rabies vaccine. World Zoonoses Day commemorates his work.

1893 Guy de Maupassant, 19th-century French author, died in Paris, France. He is remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.

1928 The first full-length all-talking motion picture, Lights of New York, premiered in New York City.

1942 Anne Frank's family was forced into hiding in After House, Amsterdam.

⭐ Significance

World Zoonoses Day is held every year on July 6 to raise awareness of the risk of zoonotic diseases (diseases or infection that can be transmitted naturally from vertebrate animals to humans or from humans to vertebrate animals). It is observed each year on the anniversary of Louis Pasteur administering the first rabies vaccine to a human in 1885.

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