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Historical Event on 8/6/1997

Cabinet approves a proposal to amend the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act, with a view to removing epilepsy as a ground for annulling marriage or for declaring marriage as null and void.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/8/2000The Gujarat Government withdraws its January 3 notification, thus reimposing the ban on its employees from participating in RSS activities.
7/22/1987A.G. Kripal Singh, 14 Tests for India and one century on debut, passed away.
8/26/1984An Indian Airlines Boeing with 68 passengers and a crew of six hijacked to Lahore. The 12 Sikh hijackers then surrendered to the authorities in the U.A.E and released all the passengers.
8/29/2000Supreme Court releases of 115 'Veerappan aides' on bail or otherwise till further orders.
5/28/1966B. S. Chawla was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 21-02-1973.
12/4/1894Swami Brahmanand was born at Hamirpur district in UP. He joined freedom movement and participated in Salt Satyagraha, Non Cooperation Movement and Quit India Movement. He also established Brahmanand Inter College (1938), Brahmanand Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya (1943) and Brahmanand Mahavidyalaya (1960).
1/18/1938The last batch of the political prisioners sailed back to the mainland from the Cellular Jail.
6/1/1842Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali officer and litterateur, was born.
8/6/1951Rukmini Lakshmipathi, great social reformer and leader, died.
7/20/1654Portugal was taken over by Britishers.