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Historical Event on 8/6/1932
Ramsay McDonald came out with his 'Communal Award' to fix seats for the various communities in the provincial legislatures.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/22/1989 | Madhya Pradesh CM Arjun Singh resigns on Churhat lottery case grounds. |
| 4/10/1997 | Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, announces Rs. 2.5 crore aid to Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Gandhi Institute of Computer Education and Information Technology, Mumbai. |
| 4/12/1993 | Indian ship MV Vishva-Mohini sinks off Spain, 33 killed. |
| 1/12/1953 | Patel Chest Institute opened by Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. All India Khadi Board constituted with centre at Bombay. |
| 1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
| 11/19/1924 | Amarjit Singh, great educationist and scientist, was born at Punjab. |
| 4/11/1999 | Tamil Nadu men, Railways women emerged National Volleyball League champions in Triprayar. |
| 7/18/1946 | U.K. Parliament approves British Cabinet mission report on India but Churchill says that the mission went too far in offering India independence outside of the Commonwealth. |
| 6/5/1999 | The Army releases documents seized from three Pakistani soldiers in the Batalik sector to substantiate its claim that Pakistan regulars are involved in the Kargil conflict. |
| 7/31/1907 | Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, famous ancient researcher and mathematician, was born. |
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