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Historical Event on 8/6/1997

Cabinet approves a proposal to amend the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act, with a view to removing epilepsy as a ground for annulling marriage or for declaring marriage as null and void.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/24/1992Karnataka High Court stays government order granting permission to open nine private engineering colleges.
1/18/1942Gandhiji restarts 'Harijan' and allied weeklies.
2/14/1989Supreme Court orders Union Carbide Coporation of USA and Union Carbide India Limited to pay $470 millions (about Rs. 710 crores) in full and final settlement of all claims out of the Bhopal gas Disaster Litigation tragedy of 1985.
3/10/1969Parliament passed the Act that made Central Industrial Security Force as an Armed Force of the union.
8/19/1994Rupee made fully convertible on current account.
11/29/2000India strikes a counter-trade oil deal with Iraq as part of an effort to build a strategic relationship with Baghdad.
4/18/1917Gandhi saw one of his testing grounds of Satyagraha in Champaran. He defied section 144 of Criminal Act.
11/7/1996Cyclonic storm hits Andhra Pradesh.
12/11/1968Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.
12/15/1950Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, first deputy Prime Minister of independent India also known as the 'Iron Man' and Bharat Ratna awardee, died.