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Historical Event on 8/6/1920
Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/3/1905 | Sir Padampat Singhania, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur. |
| 5/13/1971 | General Insurance nationalized. |
| 6/15/1966 | U.S. resumes full economic aid to India and Pakistan. |
| 3/1/1992 | Anant Gundopant Tendulkar, great journalist, passed away. |
| 3/8/1833 | Vishwanath Narayan Mandalik, famous journalist, writer and social reformer, was born. |
| 12/22/1947 | Dilip Rasiklal Doshi, cricketer (India's main slow lefty post-Bedi), was born in Rajkot. |
| 4/14/1948 | Law about Atomic Energy implemented in India. |
| 5/16/1996 | Atal Krishna Behari Vajpayee, leader of Bharatiya Janta Party, becomes the 10th Prime Minister for 13 days (from May 16, 1996 to May 28, 1996 [techinally till 01-06-1996]), although his ability to govern effectively is in doubt. |
| 2/17/1992 | Tripura's Congress (I) ministry falls as TUJS withdraws support. |
| 1/22/1989 | DMK swept to power in Tamil Nadu Assembly election. |
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