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Historical Event on 8/6/1996
Dr. Raj Kumar was conferred Dada Saheb Phalke award.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/15/1992 | Price of petrol, diesel and cooking gas hiked. |
| 5/17/1857 | Bahadhur Shah II declared as the emperor of India. |
| 1/1/1995 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of Tolerance"". |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
| 6/12/1975 | Allahabad court voids Indira Gandhi's election as premier, citing corruption at New Delhi. |
| 9/19/1950 | U. N. Assembly rejects Indian-Soviet proposal to admit Communist China in New York. |
| 10/2/1869 | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) born to a Bania (trading caste) family at Porbander, Kathiawar. He was the youngest of the three sons of Karamchand alias Kaba Gandhi, Prime Minister successively in Porbunder, Rajkot and Vankaner States, and his fourth wife Putlibai. |
| 11/18/1937 | Rajinder Pal, cricketer (pace bowler in one Test India v Eng, 0-22), was born in Delhi. |
| 2/18/1911 | Captain Vasudev Belwalkar, who had also written the novels on history and war, was born. |
| 11/11/1980 | The Hindustan Times says the 'British have reverted to what they basically are & a small, little people with small, little minds inhabiting a small, little island in the Atlantic.' |
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