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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
4/3/1932Boycott of British goods was so widespread that 70\% of cotton products were now thought to have come from Japan.
5/13/1962Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963).
11/9/1913Weekly 'Pratap' was published from Kanpur which was edited by Ganesh Shankar Vidyrarthi.
11/10/1994Dr. K. V. Putappa ""Kuvempu"", first Gyanpeet Awardee for literature and Kannad author, died at the age of 90 ye
9/25/1928Madhavrao Gadkari, great litterateur and editor, was born.
5/9/1996LDF wins 80 sets and UDF 59 in Kerala elections .
12/24/1987Dr. M.G.Ramachandran, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, died. He was 70 yrs. He was posthumously awarded the 'Bharat Ratna' by the President of India. (17-1-90).
1/7/1858The hearing of the case began that was filed against the last Mughal Emperor Bahadhur Shah II for taking part in the first armed revolution against the British.
8/15/1955Satyagrah started for the freedom of Goa.
1/30/1903Lord Curzon opened the Imperial Library in in Metcalfe Hall at Calcutta.