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Historical Event on 8/6/1992

A 30-member JPC constituted to probe the security scam.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/28/1923Nandamuri Tarak Ramarao, film star, former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and founder of Telgu Desam Party, was born. He has acted in many films including 'Patal Bhairavi'.
5/5/1977Chandra Shekar chosen President of the Janatha Party.
7/1/1961Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian women astronaut (STS 87), was born in Karnal.
10/18/19921,000 police personnel occupy the Golden Temple in Amritsar to keep Punjab separatists away.
9/30/2000India's Priyanka Chopra (18) wins the Miss World beauty pageant.
3/17/1909Pandit Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar, educationist and internationally famed Sanskrit scholar, was born at Satara, Maharashtra.
8/16/1997Krishan Kant, Andhra Pradesh's Governor, elected as the Vice President of India.
4/12/1992M. Basavapunniah (77),Communist leader, passed away.
10/20/1962China mounted a massive attacked in N.E.E.F.A. and Ladakh borders. Chinese army pushed Indians back. The real test of IAF airlift capability came when open warfare erupted on the Sino-lndian border, while operating to the tricky helipads in the mountains, including the operation of C-119Gs from airstrips 17,000 ft (5180m) above sea level in the Karakoram Himalayas, and the air-lifting by An-12Bs of two troops of AMX-13 light tanks to Chushul in Ladakh, where the small airstrip was 15,000 ft (4570m) above sea level.
8/14/1947Sir Harilal Jekisundas Kania was appinted as the Chief Justice of India. He was in this office till 05/11/1951.