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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
7/9/1951India's first Five Year Plan prepared and published. There was the first amendment to the Constitution and the first general elections were held.
3/25/1998Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, and Railway Minister Nitish Kumar present the interim budgets for 1998- 99.
12/10/1993Kerala Congress(M) splits; Four MLAs, including Minister T.M.Jacob, expelled.
9/3/1983U.S. Census reports world population at 4.72 billion. China has 1.05 billion and India 731 million.
1/22/1965Plutonium Project (Sanyantra) was inaugurated at Trombay, Mumbai.
12/29/1975D.K. Barooah elected Congress President.
1/19/1932Balgovind Jaiswal, educationist and author, was born at Mhow.
4/25/1906Dara Nusserwanji Marshall, librarian and educationist, was born.
12/17/1740Chimaji Appa, Peshwa warrior, died.
12/17/1740Akbar himself left Agra.