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Historical Event on 8/6/1989
Six top Cricket stars banned for one year from all cricket activities on the issue of American tour.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/29/1938 | Mahavir Prasad Dvivedi, famous litterateur, writer, poet and editor, died at the age of 74. |
| 9/13/1928 | Shridhar Pathak, prominent Hindi writer, passed away. |
| 8/14/1987 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1890-1988), Frontier Gandhi. He is the first non-Indian to receive this honour. |
| 9/16/1996 | J & K second phase poll for 34 seats. |
| 3/1/1901 | Vaidya Jogeshchandra Banerjee was born. |
| 12/5/1959 | K. S. Duleepsinhji, cricketer (12 Tests for England, 995 runs), passed away. |
| 3/22/1947 | India's Last Viceroy Lord Louise Mountbatten came to India. |
| 10/14/1999 | Sheikh Shamim, an Indian, is hanged for espionage in Pakistan. |
| 6/21/1906 | Vyomeshchandra Banerjee, first president of All India Congress, passed away. |
| 3/16/1993 | Central government introduces pension scheme for 170 million EPF subscribers. |
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