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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 |
| 4/10/1930 | Police raid the headquarters of the Indian National Congress, Bombay. |
| 10/1/1990 | Supreme Court stays implementation of Mandal Commission recommendations. |
| 5/29/1973 | Jo Paul Ancheri, Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Trichur, Kerala. He was recognised as Indian Player of the Year in 1994. |
| 4/9/1994 | C. Rajeshwara Rao, 80, former General Secretary of Communist Party of India, passed away in Hyderabad. |
| 2/12/2000 | 17 persons, including 12 police personnel, die as naxalites strike terror during the first phase of polling for the Bihar Assembly. |
| 2/17/1931 | Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"". |
| 5/2/1930 | Riots break out in Amritsar. |
| 3/12/1942 | British troops vacate the Andaman in Gulf of Bengal. |
| 5/26/2000 | In a significant development, the Government decides to allow disinvestment up to 60 per cent equity of Air India. |
| 11/5/1995 | Common Guidance test flight of Trishul successful. |
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