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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
1/8/1993Dr. P.C. Alexander appointed Governor of Maharashtra.
8/12/1905Japan, Britain reach an accord determining spheres of influence in Far East; India to remain with the British.
5/31/1995Statute Bill, a constitutional amendment bill, introduced in Lok Sabha to extend reservation in jobs and in promotion for SCs and STs.
2/27/1854Lord Dalhousie captured Jhansi under the East India Company.
7/17/1974J.P. Narain leads an agitation for dissolution of the Bihar Assembly.
9/25/1990S. S. Chauhan, one of the students who had suffered severe burns while trying to immolate himself in protest against implementation of Mandal Commission Report, died.
9/18/2000President K. R. Narayanan presents the Dada Saheb Phalke award for the year 1999 to film maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
5/18/1974First underground Atomic device explosion for India was carried out successfully near Pokhran in Rajasthan (Thar Desert) at 8:05 a.m. This event made India as the 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb.
10/29/1999The Anubhav Group chairman C. Natesan was arrested by the Mumbai Police on alleged charges of duping investors to the tune of Rs. 1.16 crore.
6/29/1873Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, first Bengali modern poet, died.