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Historical Event on 8/6/2000

Sundararajan Kidambi becomes the new International Master in the Beil Open chess championship at Biel.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/6/1818Dominion of Holkar in India are annexed with Rajput states and come under the British protection.
6/27/1999India won the four-nation under-21 women's hockey title, defeating England in the final at the Kean University, New Jersey.
10/22/1999Balayogi is elected as Speaker of the Lok Sabha for second consecutive term.
10/27/1904Jatindra Nath Das, great revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Bankim Behari in Calcutta.
1/8/1995ONGC's oil rig blow out at Pasalapudi site in Andhra Pradesh.
11/25/1998Nitish Kumar, Railway Minister, lays the foundation stone for the Chengalpattu-Arakkonam gauge conversion in Kancheepuram. The Kanchi Shankaracharyas stay away from the function following a controversy triggered over the invitation extended to them by the Railways.
2/6/1998V. V. S. Laxman scores 301* for Hyderabad against Bihar.
4/6/1606Khusru Prince and his father Jahangir rebelled and fled from Agra.
2/21/1991Opposition boycotts the President's address as a protest against the dismissal of Tamil Nadu government.
3/15/1992Dr. Rahi Masum Raza, film screenplay, story and dialogue writer, passed away at the age of 64 years.