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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
10/16/1945Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) established.
2/5/1991The last of 1.2 lakh Indians in Kuwait manage to return to India.
7/29/1911Mohan Bagan became the first Indian football team to win the I.F.A. Shield.
6/23/1958Tamil leaders in Madras call on Nehru to lobby for better treatment of Ceylon's Tamil minority.
8/10/1989Panchayatraj' and 'Nagarpalika' bills were passed in Parliament's Lok Sabha.
9/12/1995Heavy rainfall in the Himalaya region, resulting in landslide, claimed 70 lives near Kullu.
5/25/1979Commercial Unity Day started.
12/5/1999The Union Home Ministry ask Intelligence Bureau (IB) to conduct an inquiry against IB officials in ISRO spy case.
12/17/1959Pattabhi Sitaramayya, president of Indian National Congress and politician, died at the age of 78.
2/24/1988Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile.