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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 |
| 1/27/1967 | Maharashtra State Text book manufacturing and carriculum modification Corporation established at Pune. |
| 6/13/2000 | Major General Manuel Saavedra of Uruguay appointed Chief Military observer of the U.N. Mission monitoring the LoC in Kashmir. |
| 1/15/2000 | Baba Amte, social artist, receives Gandhi Peace Prize 1999, from the President K. R. Narayanan. |
| 9/10/1980 | Mangalore University established. |
| 3/15/1919 | Osmania University was established at Hyderabad. |
| 5/3/1969 | Dr. Zakir Hussain(1897-1969), third President of India and the first Muslim President who occupied this office on 13 May, 1967, passed away. He is also remembered as an educationist. |
| 9/24/1914 | Janardan Swami was born. |
| 7/29/1891 | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur and Hindi writer, passed away in Calcutta. |
| 2/1/1930 | A bomb, believed to be planted by Indian nationalists, is found at the British Museum at London. |
| 5/25/1936 | Rusi Framroz Surti, cricketer (Indian slow lefty, hat-trick for Qld 1969), was born in Surat, Gujarat. |
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