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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 |
| 5/25/1997 | Seven Pakistani infiltrators are killed in an encounter with BSF in Ranbir Singh Pora. |
| 9/4/1997 | Madhavrao Scindia, Tariq Anwar, Meira Kumar, Oscar Fernandes and R. R. Dhawan appointed AICC general-secretaries by party president Sitaram Kesri. |
| 12/10/1969 | Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born crop expert, whose research on new strains of high-yielding rice and wheat has led to a Green Revolution in developing countries, was awarded the Nobel peace prize today. Working at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center of Mexico since 1944, Borlaug, 56, has directed a team of agronomists working on the development of new crop plant strains that have allowed Third World farmers to multiply yields dramatically. His organization has trained farm technicians from 29 countries, including India, Pakistan and Turkey, enabling them to move steadily toward the goal of self-sufficiency in food production. |
| 9/24/1922 | Jugal Mondal, social worker and politician, was born at Howrah. |
| 3/21/1937 | Muhammad Jaffer, great Indian Hockey player, was born. |
| 6/20/1957 | Govindrao Burhanpurkar, famous harmonium player, died. |
| 7/9/1996 | A Delhi court summoned former Prime Minister Narsimha Rao to face trial as an accused in the Lakhubhai Pathak cheating case in which godman Chandraswami was already facing trial. |
| 5/24/1993 | India and Uzbekistan sign five pacts. |
| 9/1/1976 | Indira Gandhi asks for sweeping new powers at New Delhi. |
| 5/8/1994 | Harikant Jethwani, famous Sindhi litterateur, passed away. |
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