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Historical Event on 8/16/2000
Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, Union Power Minister, goes into a coma after multiple organ failure.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/28/1879 | Battle at Ulundi, Lord Chelmsford beats king Cetshwayo's Zuluz. |
| 11/21/1947 | First postal stamp of indepedent India of three and half annas denomination was started. Major General Cariappa took over from Lieutenant General Sir Francies Tulker as the Army Commander, Eastern Command, in the rank of Lieutenant General. |
| 5/16/1986 | V. Shantaram, 75, was chosen for the Dada Saheb Phalke award. |
| 5/30/1952 | S.C.Mathur was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 01-07-1955. |
| 6/3/1998 | The naval version of the surface-to-air missile, Trishul, is test-fired in Kochi. |
| 2/17/1994 | Former US Congressman Stephan Solarz named Ambassador of India. |
| 12/11/1926 | Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding |
| 8/9/2000 | Parliament approves the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Bill 2000, paving the way for the creation of a separate Chhattisgarh State. |
| 12/31/1966 | Bishen Singh Bedi made his Test Cricket debut vs West Indies at Calcutta. |
| 10/25/1999 | Fixed term for Lok Sabha, Assemblies is under study, said President K R Narayanan in his address to a joint session of Parliament. |
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