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Historical Event on 2/2/2000
The Government decides to appoint former Chief Justice of India M.N. Venkatachaliah as the Chairman of the National Commission to review the Constitution.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/19/1966 | Rajesh Kumar Chauhan, cricketer (Indian off-spinner since 1993), was born in Ranchi. |
| 1/5/1988 | India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind. |
| 3/6/1990 | India wins Indira Gandhi Gold Cup hockey tournament. |
| 8/15/1997 | The Government bans doctors from determining the sex of the foetus. |
| 2/17/1931 | Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"". |
| 4/28/1996 | EC orders re-polling in 69 booths in four states. |
| 1/31/1992 | LTTE Supremo, V. Prabhakaran, declared offender in Rajiv Gandhi murder case and ordered to surrender by a Madras court. |
| 6/14/1880 | Satish Chandra Dasgupta, rural Scientist, was born. |
| 6/14/1880 | Shahjahan, great mughal emperor of India, was born at Lahore. |
| 5/30/1919 | Rabindranath Tagore returned back the honour as a protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. |
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