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6 August - India on this day23 events

1996

SC asks Harshad Mehta to pay Rs. 217 crore to I.T. department.

#crime#law6-August-1996
1905

Chittaranjan Das "Desh Bandhu", freedom fighter and advocate, started an organisation named "Swadeshi Mandali". He also founded magazine named Narayana in 1914 and a Bengali weekly in 1922 and the daily 'Forward'.

#publication#freedom fighter6-August-1905
1933

Kripal Singh Govindsingh, Amritsar, India, 100* on debut v NZ 1959, was born at Madras.

#birth#sports6-August-1933
1997

Cabinet approves a proposal to amend the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act, with a view to removing epilepsy as a ground for annulling marriage or for declaring marriage as null and void.

#religion#law6-August-1997
1962

Peking agrees to talks with India to settle border disputes.

#general6-August-1962
1965

Indian troops invade Pakistan.

#general6-August-1965
1989

Six top Cricket stars banned for one year from all cricket activities on the issue of American tour.

#general#sports#controversy6-August-1989
1992

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

#general#controversy6-August-1992
1993

Medha Patkar suspends anti-Narmada stir and drops her ''jal samarpan'' threat.

#general#women6-August-1993
1994

The Muslim Auqaf Trust takes over charge of the Hazratbal shrine after the removal of security bunkers around it by authorities.

#general6-August-1994
1994

Hajratbal' was handed over to Muslim Auwkaf Trust.

#general6-August-1994
1997

Army confirms social activist Sanjay Ghose's death who was abducted by ULFA.

#general#death6-August-1997
1998

The Maharashtra Government rejects the Srikrishna Commission findings on the 1992-93 communal riots and the serial blasts in Mumbai, but agrees to act on the panel's suggestions to refurbish the police force.

#general#politics6-August-1998
1996

Dr. Raj Kumar was conferred Dada Saheb Phalke award.

#award6-August-1996
2000

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

#sports6-August-2000
1920

'Shakuntala' made by Oriental Film Mfg. Co. was released.

#cinema6-August-1920
1920

Star Films Ltd., Bombay, was founded by Ardeshir M. lrani and Bhogilal K. M. Dave.

#cinema6-August-1920
1920

Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon.

#cinema6-August-1920
1925

Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.

#death6-August-1925
1951

Rukmini Lakshmipathi, great social reformer and leader, died.

#death#women6-August-1951
1999

Kalpnath Rai (58), former Union Minister, died in New Delhi.

#death#politics6-August-1999
1991

Ramakrishna Hegde disqualified as MLA.

#politics6-August-1991
1998

SriKrishna Commission report was tabled by the Maharashtra government. It was rejected by the ruling alliance whom it heavily indicted.

#politics6-August-1998