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Historical Event on 8/1/2000
27 'yatris' (travelers) die after militants attack a ''langar'' in a Pahalgam health resort en route to the Amarnath cave shrine.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/15/2000 | Congress(I) gives a thumping mandate to Sonia Gandhi. |
| 6/3/1930 | George John Fernandes, social reformer and politician, was born in Mangalore (Karnataka). |
| 10/29/1988 | Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya, freedom fighter and political leader, passed away. |
| 11/3/1992 | Premnath, hero and villan of Hindi film industry, passed away. |
| 6/4/1987 | A Swedish Government enquiry finds that Bofors paid commission to middlemen for concluding Arms Purchase Agreement with India. |
| 1/10/1693 | Job Charnock, founder of Calcutta, died in the same city and he was laid to rest. |
| 1/16/1919 | Nasikrao Khantadu Tirpude, former Duputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 5/23/1895 | Shivprasad Sitar-E-Hind passed away. |
| 4/26/1946 | V. K. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-till date, was born at Hyderabad. He has become one of the first Indian Test umpires to be invited to umpire in a foreign country along with P. D. Reporter. |
| 4/26/1946 | Sikandar Sur was compelled to surrender Mankot in Punjab. |
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