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Historical Event on 8/6/1993

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

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/22/1858Veer Narayan Singh, freedom fighter, was sentenced to death.
6/23/1997Communication equipment worth several crores destroyed and Chennai's land and mobile telephone networks thrown out of gear in a fire at Anna Road telephone exchange.
11/19/1991Kashinath Anant (Rambhau Joshi), famous editor, passed away.
9/29/1994Gulf nations suspend Indian flights on account of plague epidemic.
6/6/1996Benazir Bhutto,Pakistan PM, gives green signal for opening up trade with India.
6/2/1991Dinesh Goswami, former Law Minister, passed away in a road accident in Assam.
11/15/1989Test debut of Sachin Tendulkar and Waqar Yunus at Karachi.
10/22/1947There were bound to be difficulties in consolidating the loosely federated Indian provinces, princely states, etc. into one homogeneous whole state. Kashmir, after initial dithering, acceded to India voluntarily and by popular consent, then, was invaded by Pakistani tribesmen with the support of the Pakistani government.
8/17/1911Y.R. Lokurkar, senior journalist, was born.
4/8/1774Narayan Rao's posthumous son, Madhav Rao, was seen as a challenge to Raghunath Rao only when he was 10 days old.