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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 |
| 5/19/1911 | K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind. |
| 8/21/1978 | Vinoo Mankad, cricketer, died. He played 44 tests for India and had 2109 runs and took 162 wickets. |
| 8/25/1992 | Mi-4 was re-equipped with the mighty Mi-35 Squadron and was renamed as 104-Helicopter Squadron. |
| 10/13/1999 | Atal Krishna Bihari Vajpayee became the Prime Minister of India. |
| 6/24/1908 | Gopinath, famous Kathakali dancer, was born. |
| 6/16/1925 | Chittaranjan Das, great freedom fighter, revolutionary, orator, poet, journalist and lawyer, died. |
| 4/11/1930 | Pandit Motilal Nehru renamed 'Anand Bhuvan' as 'Swaraj Bhawan' and handed it over to the people. |
| 4/4/1971 | Pakistan reports seizure of nine Indian army vehicles. |
| 7/9/1875 | The Bombay Stock Exchange, the first in India, was constructed under the shade of a large banyan tree. |
| 9/26/1985 | P.T. Usha sets record for 100m (Women) in 11.39 seconds at Jakarta. |
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