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Historical Event on 8/1/2000

Lt. Gen. Padmanabhan to be new Army chief replacing Gen. V. P. Malik.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/29/1994M.H. Kania, former Chief Justice of India made Chairman of the 14th Law Commission.
12/11/1908New law suspends trial by jury and increases penalties for 'sedition.'
8/9/1969Ochterlony Memorial in Calcutta was renamed as 'Shahid Minar'.
3/7/1996Union Cabinet clears decks for extending benefits of reservation to Dalit Christians.
10/16/1878Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet and writer, was born at Chennara village in Kerala.
8/25/1996194 pilgrims die of cold at the cave temples of Amarnath .
9/17/1997Kalpakkam Mini Reactor (KAMINI), the only U-233 fuelled operating reactor in the world, attains maximum capacity of 30 KW.
1/4/1995IAF batch (Angel of Mercy) returns from Somalia after 16 months of stay and 700 sorties.
10/10/1970Union Government ruled out judicial probe into the death of the late PM Lal Bahadur Shastri.
2/28/1930Sir Chandrasekhar V. Raman, Scientist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering ""Raman Effect"". He is also the first Indian to receive this honor in Physics, The Indian Nobel Laureates.