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Historical Event on 7/31/2000

The Lok Sabha passes by voice vote a bill for creation of Chhattisgarh state.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/8/1936Jawaharlal Nehru elected president of Indian National Congress.
10/16/193635 killed in Hindu-Muslim riots at Bombay.
9/8/1910Saint Shri Gajanan Maharaj died.
4/21/1946Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, cricket (Indian off-spinner, Test umpire, ICC referee), was born in Madras. He received Arjun Award (1971).
6/15/1966U.S. resumes full economic aid to India and Pakistan.
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
11/13/1998Tendulkar blazes as India wins the Coca Cola Cup at Sharjah beating Zimbabwe in the final.
1/14/1994C. V. Waran, veteran freedom fighter and social worker, passed away.
7/12/1949Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die.
4/11/1999The DRDO has successfully flight tested AGNI-11 with a range of 2000 km, using solid propellant rocket motors in both stages and rail mobile launcher system from its new launch complex in the Orissa Coast. With this launch the country has reached the point of operationalisation of AGNI-11 as a weapon system. (1-1-2000).