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Historical Event on 6/8/1998
Sani Abacha, 54, Nigerian President, died in Abuja of heart attack.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/11/1948 | Mohammad Ali Jinnah, father of Pakistan, died. |
| 4/15/1895 | Bal Gangadhar Tilak inagurated the Shivaji Mahotsav at Raigad Fort. |
| 9/4/1929 | N. Hanumantha Rao, cricket test umpire for 9 tests from 1978-84, was born in Karnataka. |
| 4/12/1997 | Maharashtra assembly adopts bill banning interviews for admitting students to pre-primary schools. |
| 5/31/1947 | Gandhiji declares that peace must precede partition, and he would not be party to India's vivisection. |
| 7/23/1964 | Samrendranath Roy, great statistician, passed away. |
| 5/19/1904 | Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, passed away at Nauheim, Hesse-Nassau, France. He commenced cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world. |
| 2/18/1975 | Yogesh Shyam, soccer(Football) player, was born. |
| 9/12/1961 | Nalin Vilochan Sharma, great Hindi critic, died. |
| 6/4/1959 | Chakravarti Rajagopalachari opposed the Socialist Policies of Indian National Congress and founded Swatantra Party alongwith Ranga. |
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