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Historical Event on 8/6/1920
Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon.

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9/1/1999	Ace athlete Jyotirmoyee Sikdar is awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna; coaches Bahadur Singh, Hargobind Singh (athletics) and Gurbax Singh Sandhu (boxing) the Dronacharya awards during the Arjuna awards function at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Delhi.
3/29/1939	Hanumant Singh, cricketer (14 Tests for India-century on debut), was born in Banswara.
1/26/2001	Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Ustad Bismillah Khan.
3/12/1992	India and the US decide to hold joint naval exercises in the Indian ocean.
3/3/1700	Chhatrapati Rajaram Maharaj died of lung infection due to smallpox at Sinhagad fort.
12/28/1926	Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service.
12/28/1926	Jesuit father and first Englishman S.J.Thomas Stephens arrived at Goa in a Portuguese ship. He settled here and died in 1619.
3/22/2000	INSAT-3B launched.
3/17/1999	An international seminar on UN Peacekeeping was co-jointly hosted by Ministry of External affairs and Ministry of Defence at New Delhi from 17 to 19 March 1999. The seminar was conducted by HQ Army Training Command, Shimla on behalf of the Indian Army. A total of 126 foreign delegates from 71 countries participated in the seminar.
3/17/1999	Nizam Shah became the Sultan of Dehli.

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