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Historical Event on 6/8/1992

55-60\% polling takes place in the Andhra, Bihar, W. Bengal and Delhi by-elections.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/24/1897Padmashree Pandit Omkarnath Thakur, famous music director of Gwalior Gharana, was born at Gujrat.
9/2/1946Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, passed away.
7/9/1873Henry Albert John Gidney, greatest leader and politician, was born in Igatpuri, Maharashtra.
9/24/1999India's Krishnan Sasikiran and China's Wang Yu bagged the boys' and girl's titles respectively in the Asian Junior Chess championship in Vung Tau City, Vietnam.
5/19/1982Elections for Assemblies held in West Bengal, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala.
3/7/1987Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first batsman to score 10,000 test runs in cricket a match against Pakistan at Ahmedabad.
8/1/1920Kirloskar, monthly magzine, was published.
2/28/1712Bahadur Shah I died at Lahore at the age of 72 in the war of succession.
3/19/1936Raghav Kaneria, great artist and decorator, was born.
12/13/1999Dr. V. Kurien gets the Paulos Mar Gregorius Award 1999.