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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
10/27/1969Darshansingh Pheruman died in Amritsar during the 74th day of his fast, which he had undertaken for the merger of Chandigarh in Punjab.
9/13/1998Dr. Justice Adarsh Sein Anand is appointed Chief Justice of India.
10/31/1920Inaugural session of the All India Trade Union Congress was conducted in Bombay.
3/16/1993Bomb blast in a multi-storey building in Calcutta kills 70 people.
8/4/1993Tarabai Bapat, daughter-in-law of revolutionary Senapati Bapat, died.
7/17/1997K.R. Narayanan,Vice President, wins in the Presidential election with a record margin to become the next head of state.
5/18/1972Kokan Krishi (Agriculture) University was established.
8/30/2000A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announced a package for small units raising the ceiling on loans from Rs. 10 lakhs to Rs. 25 lakhs. For the handloom sector, a separate scheme costing Rs. 447 crores was also finalised.
9/10/1977The Planning Commission decides to introduce the Rolling Plan concept.
3/25/1997Justice Jagdish Saran Verma sworn in Chief Justice of India.