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Historical Event on 6/8/1998
Sani Abacha, 54, Nigerian President, died in Abuja of heart attack.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/1/2000 | India wins four golds in the under-14 Youth chess championship in Teheran. |
| 3/26/1993 | Surajkund AICC okays dual posts for Narasimha Rao. |
| 3/26/1993 | Humayun died at Delhi. Two days earlier he had slipped on the staircase of a library being constructed at the Old Fort. |
| 3/30/1993 | Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy. |
| 9/19/1960 | Sindhu River water-sharing settement was signed between India and Pakistan. |
| 8/27/1918 | Nemichandra Jain, stage critic, was born. |
| 12/3/1984 | 3,000 people died and more than 50,000 people were badly affected when they inhaled poisonous toxic gas emission from the Union Carbide plant. This event is better known as ""the Bhopal Gas Tragedy"", the biggest industrial disaster that occured in India. |
| 9/20/1999 | Shobha Subrahmanyam, managing director of the Ananda Bazaar Patrika Group of publications, was elected President of the Indian Newspaper Society for 1999-2000. |
| 12/17/1938 | Charuchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali story writer and novelist, died. |
| 3/9/1990 | Darbara Singh, former Punjab Chief Minister, died. |
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