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Historical Event on 8/16/2000

Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, Union Power Minister, goes into a coma after multiple organ failure.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/24/1815John Sevier, Indian fighter (Gov/Rep-Tn), died at the age of 70.
6/7/1997Mahesh Bhupathi becomes the first Indian to win a Grand Slam title when he and Japan's Rika Hiraki claim the mixed doubles.
6/24/1946Congress party rejects British plan for provisional govt. pending constitution in New Delhi.
7/29/1984Troops were sent to Hyderabad to quell communal riots.
3/6/1997Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) inaugurated in Mauritius.
11/18/1997School bus plunges into the Yamuna killing 28 Delhi children.
1/4/1914Indira Sant, famous Marathi poet, was born.
6/17/1961The HF-24 Marut supersonic fighter, designed by German engineer Kurt Tank, makes its maiden flight.
9/11/1948Mohammad Ali Jinnah, father of Pakistan, died.
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.