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Historical Event on 6/8/1997

Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, Assam Chief Minister, has a narrow escape as a powerful remote-controlled bomb exploded in Maligaon area of Guwahati.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/8/1994Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432.
4/21/1998The services of 12 non-railway chairmen of Railway Recruitment Boards are terminated.
8/27/1952Vigyan Mandir inaugurated at Nazafgarh Road, New Delhi.
5/2/1977C.V. Narasimhan became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 25/11/77).
2/13/1719Jahandar Shah was strangled to death and the Sayyid brothers were killed soon after.
1/24/1966Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India. She continued in this office till March 24, 1977, after winning the General Elections. She became the only second woman in modern history to head a government.
10/6/1858Nanasaheb Peshwa, a revolutionary of first mutiny, died.
11/16/199160 percent of the 23 million voters exercise their franchise in the by-elections to 15 Lok Sahba and 56 Assembly seats in 14 states.
4/5/1990Lok Sabha passes the Punjab Bill.
5/19/1951Sukhdev Bihari Mishra of Mishra Brothers, first historian of Hindi litterateur, passed away.