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Historical Event on 6/8/1992

55-60\% polling takes place in the Andhra, Bihar, W. Bengal and Delhi by-elections.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/1/1997Ghulam Rasool Wani, National Conference leader, kidnapped and shot dead by militants at Kaskot in Doda district, Jammu.
10/1/1932Indian Milatary Academy became functional with Brigadier LP Collins, DSO, OBE as the Commandant. The first course of 40 GCs had on its rolls Sam Manekshaw, Smith Dun and Mohd Musa, later to be Chiefs of the armies of their respective countries, i.e. India, Burma (now Myanmar) and Pakistan. This training was for a period of two and a half years.
12/24/1988Jaynendra Kumar, famous Hindi novelist, died.
2/25/1903Judge Kailas Nath Wanchoo, chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
1/7/1987Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket. At 28, he was the youngest cricketer to accomplish this feat.
7/30/1996Delhi High Court rejects Narasimha Rao's petition seeking quashing of 09 order of chief metropolitan magistrate summoning him to appear as co-accused in the $ 100,000 Lakhubhai cheating case.
7/27/19987 Hindus are gunned down in two Doda villages of Jammu and Kashmir.
5/9/1998Kirit Raval is appointed Solicitor-General of India.
1/12/1955Pandit Baburao Vishnu Paradkar, eminent Hindi editor and veteran journalist, passed away.
9/14/199778 persons die and around 250 are injured as four bogies of Ahmedabad-Howrah Express de-rail while crossing a bridge on Hasdeo river near Champa Railway Station in Bilaspur district, Madhya Pradesh.