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Historical Event on 8/10/2000

Parliament approves the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Bill to create a hilly state of Uttaranchal.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/12/1976Madanlal Dhingra's ashes were brought to India.
1/1/1995Raman Lamba & Ravi Sehgal score 464 for 1st wicket for Delhi.
4/27/1993A national credit fund for women called the 'Rashtriya Mahila Kosh' set up.
1/18/1948Gandhi breaks 121-hour fast in New Delhi, after halting of Muslim-Hindu riots in Calcutta. He breaks the fast on security pledges from communal leaders who ""Peace Pledge"" to Gandhiji.
11/9/1710Reynier de Klerk, governor-general of Dutch-Indies, baptized.
4/19/1995Rajendra Kumari Bajpai appointed the Lt. Governor of Pondichery.
3/24/1987First developmental launch of new generation rocket ASLV 'Stretched Rohini Satellite Series' (SROSS-1). This carried payload for launch vehicle performance monitoring and for gamma ray astronomy. This plunged within two minutes and 40 seconds of its launching.
1/1/1978Samrat (Emperor) Ashoka, Air India's first Jumbo-Jet Boeing 747, after explosion falls into Arabian Sea, killing 213 people. Nobody survived.
2/12/1995Maramon Centenary Convention, (the biggest Christian gathering in Asia) begins in Kerala.
12/16/1992The Parliament adopts resolution condemning the demolition of the mosque at Ayodhya and centre appoints a one-man judicial commission to enquire into the Ayodhya incidents.