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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 |
| 11/19/1998 | The Indira Gandhi memorial award is presented to Mirta Saavedra Polo, Ambassador of Panama, for her contributions to strengthening bilateral relations between India and Pakistan. |
| 6/26/1992 | The Tin Bigha corridor leased to Bangladesh as per the Indo-Bangladesh agreement. |
| 11/30/1982 | World premier of Sir Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi' held in New Delhi. |
| 11/5/1998 | Baba Nagarjun ""Vaidyanath Mishra"" died. He wrote in Hindi, Maithali and Sanskrit. Some of his noted works are ""Patra-Heen- Nagna Gachh"", ""Dukhmochan"", ""Yugdhara"" and ""Sah |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 11/24/1919 | Gandhiji presides over All-India Khilafat conference at Delhi. |
| 6/4/1903 | Gandhiji established the weekly journal ""Indian Opinion"" organised at Phoenix farm near Durban. |
| 1/7/1988 | Mrs. Janaki Ramachandran sworn in as CM of Tamil Nadu. |
| 7/7/1799 | Ranjit Singh captured Lahore in Punjab from Sikh rulers. |
| 8/7/1986 | Lok Sabha passes Constitution 53rd Amendment bill conferring statehood on Mizoram. |
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