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Historical Event on 6/8/1897
Manindranath Basu, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/14/1989 | Supreme 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. |
| 3/30/1994 | Exim Policy streamlined to attract exporting community. |
| 9/27/1974 | Pankaj Dharmani, Indian ODI batsman (1997), was born. |
| 5/21/1996 | M.S. Sushama Dande (Shiv Sena) elected first woman mayor of New Mumbai along with Savitri Patil (Shiv Sena) as Deputy Mayor. |
| 12/10/1948 | Human Rights Day. |
| 12/15/1943 | The Vengeance suffered numerous defects and teething troubles, necessitating temporary withdrawal from the two IAF squadrons, but the problems were eventually mitigated if not eradicated, and No. 8 Sqn flew its first operational Vengeance sorties against Japanese targets from Double Moorings, Chittagong. |
| 1/17/1601 | Akbar, after eight month's siege, entered Asirgarh one of the strongest forts in India. |
| 6/4/1953 | University of Cambridge confers honorary Doctorate of Laws on J. L. Nehru. |
| 7/29/1980 | India won Gold Medal in Hockey at Moscow Olympics. |
| 3/11/1992 | Dr. Anita B. Bose-Pfaff, daughter of Netaji, declines to accept the 'Bharat Ratna' conferred on her father. |
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