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Historical Event on 8/6/1997

Army confirms social activist Sanjay Ghose's death who was abducted by ULFA.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/24/1999The Orissa police arrest 47 persons in connection with the killing of the Australian missionary.
9/19/1937Vishnu Narayan Matkhande passed away.
7/13/1912Shriman Narayan, educationist, administrator and diplomat, was born in Etawah, U.P.
9/9/2000Venus Williams wins the women's singles in the U.S. Open championship.
2/8/1943Subhashchandra Bose started his journey to Japan from Kiel along with his secretary Major Abid Hassan in a submarine.
1/9/1996PM unveils India's state-of-the-art Main Battle Rank (MBT) `Arjun' at a New Delhi function.
3/21/1971Gavaskar scores the first of his 34 Test tons, 116 at Georgetown.
5/10/1996PM P.V. Narasimha Rao and his Council of Ministers resign.
8/11/1908Khudiram Bose was hanged on this day in Central Jail at Mujaffarpur, Bihar at the age of 19 years. He along with Prafulla Chaki had planned to bomb the carriage supposed to be carrying Kingsford, unfortunately he was betrayed and was caught and finally was sentenced to death and hanged. This day is observed as ""Martyr's Day"" in memory of the great freedom fighter. Even today the soul stirring songs composed in his honour are sung by Bengali folk-singers.
7/22/1918During the First World War, India's first fighter pilot Indra Lal Rai's plane was shot down in battle by Germans planes near London. Rai had fought for Britisher's Force.