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6 June

🇮🇳 In India

1674 Shivaji crowned king of the Maratha Empire in a lavish ceremony at Raigarh fort.

1903 Hiralal Sen, generally considered one of India's first filmmakers, shot the first Indian advertisment sequences for Jabakusum (hair tonic) and Edward's Tonic.

2017 Arundhati Roy published her second novel The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness, 20 years after her first.

🌎 Elsewhere

1799 Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature, was born.

1930 Frozen food was sold in retail stores for the first time. 18 stores in Springfield, Massachusetts, US, took part in a trial to test consumer acceptance. Clarence Birdseye, the founder of the Birds Eye Frozen Food Company, is considered to be the father of the modern frozen food industry.

1961 Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, one of the founders of modern psychiatry, died.

1984 The video puzzle game Tetris, created by Russian computer engineer, Alexey Pajitnov, was published. With over 100 million copies sold, it is one of the most successful video games in history.

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