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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 |
| 7/31/1948 | State Transport Corporation was established in Calcutta. |
| 8/1/1905 | Horse drawn tram cars were closed down in Bombay. This service was started on May 9, 1874 with 20 tram cars and 200 horses. The very first day of its run, the number of passengers carried was 451 and the amount earned was Rs. 85/- on the last day it had 1360 horses and carried 71,947 passengers and earned Rs.4,260/. |
| 4/20/1993 | Jharkhand Movement suspends its 36-days old economic blockade. |
| 1/10/1966 | Tashkent Conference between Pakistan and Indian leaders ended after signing of peace accord by Lal Bahadur Shastri and General Ayub Khan. |
| 7/16/1959 | Suhridkumar Roy, famous geologist, died. |
| 5/9/1917 | Fighting breaks out at Kharkwasta in the north-west frontier of India. |
| 1/25/1932 | Rammanohar Vishnunarayan Tripathi, great social worker and political leader of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 10/18/1712 | Jeremias Van Riemsdijk, Governor General of Dutch Indies (1775-77), was born. |
| 7/25/1992 | R. Venkataraman retired from the post of 8th President. |
| 2/8/1971 | Kanhaiyalal Maniklal Munshi, writer, administrator, leader and founder of Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, died. |
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