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Historical Event on 8/6/1951

Rukmini Lakshmipathi, great social reformer and leader, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/8/1910Saint Shri Gajanan Maharaj died.
2/23/1962The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).
8/5/1965Jaya Prakash Narayan was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for public service.
11/23/1991India decides to upgrade its ties with the Soviet Republics.
7/26/2000The Centre imposes a ban on employing children belowing 14 years as domestic servants by all Government employees in the All India services at the insistence of the NHRC.
3/23/1942Japanese forces occupy Rangoon, Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean.
10/1/1847Annie Besant, famous philosopher and thesophist, was born in London.
7/24/1996Govt. decides to raise the ceiling on the maximum amount of retirement/death gratuity from Rs. 1 lakh to Rs. 2.50 lakhs.
7/7/1763Britishers declared Mir Jafer as Nawab of Bengal.
8/19/1910Sister Alphonsa, teacher and social worker, was born at Kudamaloor, Kerala.