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Historical Event on 2/1/2000

The Centre decides to place almost all items under the automatic approval route for foreign direct investment and NRI and OCB investments.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/25/1866Allahabad court was established for Uttar Pradesh territory, it sat in Agra with five Judges between 1866 and 1868. It also has a bench in Lucknow.
2/5/1986Laxmanrao Sardesai, famous Marathi and Konkani litterateur, passed away.
10/13/1971Hitesh Modi, cricketer (Kenyan left-handed batsman 1996 World Cup), was born.
8/2/1980Ramshankar Baij, great sculptor, died.
2/23/1946Some 300,000 Indians joined in anti-British demonstrations today in the wake of yesterday's violent riots in the city of Bombay. Indian Navy rebels. A day of terror and rebellion saw Indian Navy members turn against their British officers firing machine guns.
11/15/1999Notorious criminal Surendra alias Dolatpuri is shot dead in a police encounter at Khatavli, Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh.
7/15/1948Establishment of 'PEPS' (Patiyala and East Punjab States Union).
10/15/1932First Indian commercial airliner service 'Tata Sons Ltd' started. (Tata Airlines)
2/16/1942The third IAF unit to operate the Lysander was No.4 Squadron, formed with four aircraft on 16 February 1942. This squadron was to continue to operate the Westland aircraft until it too was re-equipped with the Hurricane in June 1943.
10/26/1999The Government rejected the demand that Rajiv Gandhi's name be deleted from the chargesheet in the Bofors case.