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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 |
| 7/3/1661 | Portugal gives Tanger & Bombay to English King Charles II. |
| 11/3/1995 | Sheila Kaul becomes Governor of Himachal Pradesh, P. Shivshankar of Kerala and V Reghunath Reddy takes additional charge of Sikkim. |
| 6/19/1990 | NDC approves approach paper to the Eighth Plan. |
| 2/8/1994 | Gopalrao Deuskar, internationally famed painter, passed away. |
| 4/12/1801 | William Carey fort was appointed the Professor of Bengali Language in fort at William College, Calcutta. |
| 10/2/1929 | Mahatma Gandhi made the Navjivan publication a charitable trust |
| 5/21/1991 | Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated by human bomb explosion plotted by LTTE at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu, 40 km from Madras, at 10.20 P.M. |
| 4/10/1919 | Miss Mercia Sherwood, an English teacher, was assaulted by a mob in Amritsar. Brig. General. R.E.H. Dyer had given instructions to beat her. |
| 5/13/1952 | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru again becomes the Prime Minister of India and forms a new union ministry. |
| 9/9/1920 | Anglo Oriental College of Aligargh became Aligarh Muslim University. It was the first university to use the regional language. |
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