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Historical Event on 8/1/2000
Lt. Gen. Padmanabhan to be new Army chief replacing Gen. V. P. Malik.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/9/1970 | Production of Uranium 233 started at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Bombay. |
| 5/4/1854 | The first stamp was officially issued from Calcutta where the first modern post office was established. |
| 9/4/1967 | 6.5 earthquake at Koyna Dam in Maharashtra kills 200 people. |
| 10/2/1993 | Prime Minister's employment project started in urban areas. |
| 8/22/1933 | Inhabitants of Partabgarh face starvation as Opium was now outlawed. They had been living from the sale of opium for the past 800 years. |
| 10/30/1977 | One hundred thousand Tamil Hindu tea-pickers, who were expatriated from Sri Lanka, are shipped to Madras, South India. |
| 3/1/1998 | Bharat Ratna is awarded to Dr. A.J.P. Abdul Kalam, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister, and Smt. M. S. Subbulakshmi, Carnatic musician. The award is also conferred posthumously on film director Satyajit Ray, freedom fighter Aruna Asaf Ali and former Prime Minister Gulzari Lal Nanda. |
| 5/22/1993 | Karnataka special task force guns down Veerappan's brother and righthand man Arjunan. |
| 4/1/1989 | Shridhar Madhav Joshi (S. M. Joshi), great socialist leader, passed away. |
| 5/29/1933 | Kishorilal Goswami, famous Hindi novelist, passed away. |
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