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Historical Event on 8/1/2000

27 'yatris' (travelers) die after militants attack a ''langar'' in a Pahalgam health resort en route to the Amarnath cave shrine.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/24/1856Henry, first Viscount Hardinge of Lahore and Governor General of India, passed away.
7/24/2000S. Vijayalakshmi becomes the first Indian woman Grandmaster in the International Grandmasters chess tournament held in Hyderabad.
8/21/1955Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, noted critic of Gujarati literature, poet and story writer, passed away.
4/14/1993The Cabinet Committee approves delicensing of car, refrigerator and leather goods industries.
3/10/1993The 12-day-old caretaker ministry in Tripura led by Samir Ranjan Burman resigns.
10/14/199210 Indians sentenced to six years in jail in the UAE on account of staging a play in Sharjah.
2/10/1946Gandhiji revives 'Harijan' and allied group of weekly journals.
8/15/1950Indian Constitution goes into effect.
6/13/196660 people were killed in a collision between two suburban trains of Bombay.
9/4/1929N. Hanumantha Rao, cricket test umpire for 9 tests from 1978-84, was born in Karnataka.