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Historical Event on 8/6/1997
Army confirms social activist Sanjay Ghose's death who was abducted by ULFA.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/28/1995 | Third Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1C), carring advanced remote sensing cameras was launched by Russian Molniya launch vehicle. It is still in service. |
| 7/9/1995 | 17 Indian mountaineers peaked Jogambha in the Garhwal Himalayas. |
| 4/17/1941 | Office of Price Administration was formed which handled the rationing of essential commodities. |
| 9/18/1909 | Kilachand Ramdas, famous merchant, was born. |
| 7/16/1914 | N. E. Balram, communist leader, died. |
| 1/30/1994 | Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wickets. |
| 3/30/1949 | New Union of Greater Rajasthan was ceremonially inaugurated by Patel when the existing Union of Rajasthan was joined by four premier states of Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur and Jaisalmer. Hiralal Shastri became its first Chief Minister. |
| 11/19/1838 | Keshab Chandra Sen (1838-84), nationalist leader of Bengal, was born in Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in the country. He joined the Brahmo Samaj in 1857 but seperated from it in 1866 and founded Brahma Samaj of India, a radical offshoot of the Adi Brahmo Samaj. |
| 2/11/1913 | Surendranath Dwivedi, educationist, politician and writer, was born in Khandasahi (Orissa). |
| 12/28/1931 | The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him. |
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