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Historical Event on 8/6/1994
The Muslim Auqaf Trust takes over charge of the Hazratbal shrine after the removal of security bunkers around it by authorities.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/4/1997 | Mumbai High Court directs BMC to reinstate G.R. Khairnar, the iconoclastic Dy. Municipal Commissioner suspended in `94 and removed from service in October 1996. |
| 6/22/1935 | Vaman Viswanath Kumar, cricketer (useful Madras leggie who only played 2 Tests), was born in Madras. |
| 6/11/1997 | I.K. Gujral, PM, asserts that India had not deployed the `Prithvi' ballistic missile anywhere in the country or on the border. |
| 4/30/1909 | R. Shankar, politician, journalist and former Chief Minister of Kerala, was born. |
| 1/9/1982 | A group of 21 Indian scientists team led by S. Z. Qasim started for the first ever Antarctica expedition on December 1981 - Jan 1982. |
| 1/10/1693 | Job Charnock, founder of Calcutta, died in the same city and he was laid to rest. |
| 10/29/1952 | Amalgamation of the Steel Corporation of Bengal with Indian Iron and Steel Company Ltd. to be effective from 1st January 1953 under the latter's name. |
| 2/3/1997 | Major fire reduces Calcutta Book Fair to ashes. |
| 10/23/1898 | Khandubhai K. Desai, politician and social reformer, was born at Bulsar in Gujarat. |
| 2/27/1999 | Union Budget presented. Fiscal deficit cut to 4.4 per cent. |
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