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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.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/1/1918Sir Edwin Lutyens was knighted in recognition of his quality of work at Delhi and his gratuitious services to the War Graves Commission.
9/2/1996Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand beats Garry Kasparov in Rapid Chess tournament in Geneva.
11/30/2000Dr. Anil Kakodkar takes charge as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy.
8/23/1994Former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif said that Pakistan possessed a nuclear bomb and warned that an attack by India could start a nuclear war in Pakistan.
10/24/1945UNO Day.
7/2/1999Medha Patkar of Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) planned a 'fast' to protest against the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP).
5/21/1984Army moves in after 114 die in religious strife at Bomay.
2/15/1948Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, famous Hindi poet, political agitator, critic and freedom fighter, passed away near Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, in an automobile accident.
11/18/1727Maharaja Jai Singh-II of Amber laid the stone of Jaipur City. Vidyadhar Chakravarty of Bengal was the architect of the first planned city in India.
11/13/1999Punjab Police men, Railways women emerged Federation Cup basketball champions in Jalandhar.