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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.

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6/24/1991Two LIC officers burnt to death in Kashmir.
7/1/1913Kumarmanglam Parasshiv Prabhakar, former Chief of Indian Army, was born.
4/18/1971Gavaskar makes 220 in second innings vs West Indies after 124 in first.
9/16/1990Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War.
5/13/1962Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963) retired from the post of first President.
2/16/1980The first visible Total Solar Eclipse of the 20th Century was seen. This succeeded the total solar eclipse after 22 June 1898.
6/24/1974India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 mins.
6/23/1894Edward VIII, king of Great Brit/N-Ireland and emperor of India (1936), was born.
3/1/1951NitishKumar RamLakhanSingh was born in Bakhtiarpur, Distt. Patna (Bihar).
8/16/1997Bodo extremists kill 13 villagers in Nalbari district in Assam.