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Historical Event on 8/6/1920
Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/1/1936 | Orissa state was formed as a province of British India separating from Bihar. |
| 12/31/1995 | Air Chief Marshal Satish Kumar Sareen PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, Indian Air Force. He was in this office till 31/Dec/1998. |
| 3/15/1997 | Lok Sabha passes Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, 1997. |
| 8/1/1955 | Arun Lal, cricketer (Indian batsman in sixteen Tests 1982-89), was born in Moradabad, U.P. |
| 6/7/1955 | Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, visited U.S.S.R. |
| 2/21/1894 | Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, famous scientist, was born at Bhera, Punjab. |
| 12/31/1738 | Lord Charles Cornvalis, Governor General of India (1786-1793), was born. |
| 1/1/1949 | A ceasefire eventually came into force. Under UN supervision, a negotiated Cease Fire Line was drawn up on an actual holding basis pending future settlements. This meandering, and at places militarily illogical line, ran some 700 kilometres from Chhamb in the South to a map reference point NJ 9842 in Ladakh in the North. The fighting was to continue for 15 months, with heavy RIAF involvement throughout, but despite being continuously on an operational footing throughout this period, the re-organisation and modernisation of the service continued unabated. |
| 1/1/1949 | The first ship of the Dutch East India Company returned from Far East. |
| 1/29/1983 | Piloo Mody, veteran Parliament member and senior leader of Janata Party, passed away. |
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