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Historical Event on 8/9/2000

Parliament approves the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Bill 2000, paving the way for the creation of a separate Chhattisgarh State.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/17/1996President's rule reimposed in U.P.
7/30/1987Rajiv Gandhi escaped an attack on him at Colombo.
5/6/1993Violence in Orissa state secretariat, CM manhandled.
2/3/1998The BJP releases its election manifesto promising to make India a nuclear state; build a Ram temple at Ayodha and work for a uniform civil code.
6/18/1996CBI arrests Sanjeeva Rao, relative of Narasimha Rao, and Prakash Yadav, son of former Union Minister, in the urea scam.
7/16/1996The four basin states of Narmada valley - Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra - reach agreement to raise the height of Sardar Sarovar dam in Gujarat to 436' after which hydrological studies will be done for 5 years to decide whether the height should be raised to the awarded 455'.
7/17/1937Delhi-Calcutta Express Train derailed near Patna killing 95.
2/13/1719Jahandar Shah was strangled to death and the Sayyid brothers were killed soon after.
6/25/1932India played their first official test match on the ground of Lords against England.
10/20/1998Security forces unearth 770 kg of RDX and plastic explosives in the Tangmay area of Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir.