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Historical Event on 8/2/2000

The Lok Sabha performs a ''hat-trick'' by setting off the process for the creation of three new states by passing the Jharkhand Bill.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/20/1991Manohar Phalke, famous union leader and MLA, died.
1/10/1888Marathas were defeated in the third and last war against the British at Rampura.
11/17/1948Despite the scepticism on the part of the US and British advisers concerning the feasibility of the scheme, the first half-dozen HAL-reconditioned B-24s were ready by November 1948 and, on the 17th of that month, No. 5 Squadron was formed with these heavy bombers.
6/20/1948Lord Mountbatten resigns as the Governor General of Indian Union.
10/24/1975Bounded labour system was abolished by Ordinance
4/3/1999India's INSAT-2E multipurpose telecommunications satellite is successfully launched from the Kourou space station in French Guyana.
2/3/1905Sir Padampat Singhania, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur.
5/17/1980V. S. Kumar Anandan sets record of balancing on one foot for continuous 33 hrs.
5/18/1998India may take the US to WTO.
8/15/1995P.V Narasimha Rao introduces the mid-day meal scheme for the primary school children under the Central Government Welfare Programme.