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Historical Event on 8/6/1997
Cabinet approves a proposal to amend the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act, with a view to removing epilepsy as a ground for annulling marriage or for declaring marriage as null and void.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/1/1997 | At least 61 persons, including 22 women and 17 children, belonging to SC and extremely backward communities are gunned down by banned private army of feudal landlords, Ranbir Sena, at Bathe-Lakshmanpur village in Bihar's Jehanabad district. |
| 4/16/1930 | Rioting continues in India as British police fire on mob of 10,000. |
| 4/16/1930 | Guru Ramdas, Sikh Guru, established Amritsar city. |
| 9/5/1987 | Shanbagh, Vandana Rao, Shiny and Usha sets record in the women's category for 4x400m race in 3.31.55 seconds at Rome . |
| 7/10/1984 | White Paper on Punjab released by Union Government. |
| 8/3/1998 | India's most sophisticated medium range surface-to-air missile ''Akash'' was test-fired from the interim test range at Chandipur-on-sea. |
| 5/17/1857 | Bahadhur Shah II declared as the emperor of India. |
| 7/21/1975 | Hindi Post Guards was established by Government. |
| 2/23/1969 | Madhubala, famous Hindi film actress, passed away. |
| 2/14/1976 | Urban Land Ceiling Regulation Act comes into force. |
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