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Historical Event on 8/1/2000

One hundred people of Kinnaur, Shimla and Mandi districts of HP die following flash floods in the Sutlej river.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/6/1946Homeguard Organination was established.
1/21/1969First India built electronic digital computer commissioned.
3/9/1974Guru Amudan Sharma, famous Manipuri dance master, passed away.
3/17/1997A Delhi court sentences former Union Minister Kalpnath Rai to 10 years RI.
1/26/1961Special stamps dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi in the Champion of Liberty series issued by the United States postal department.
8/5/1981Jagjivan Ram heads breakaway Congress(U) and calls new party Congress (J).
6/30/1993AN-12 phasing out marked the end of a glorious chapter of transport operations in the IAF.
7/31/1940Udham Singh, fiery revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer, was hanged by the British Government in the Pantone Villa Jail, London.
9/30/1943Ramanand Chattopadhyay, famous author and journalist, died.
4/10/1937Shridhar Vyanktesh Ketkar, creator of Maharashtra Gyankosh and Sociologist, passed away.