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Historical Event on 2/1/2000

The Centre decides to place almost all items under the automatic approval route for foreign direct investment and NRI and OCB investments.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/3/1929Dr. Hemant Vishnu Inamdar, thesis writer and editor, was born.
4/6/1980Janata Party splits again; members with RSS links form the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). A. B. Vajpayee becomes its first President.
12/13/1947Nicholas Raerich, great philosopher, master-artist, prolific writer, scientist, educator, designer, poet, humanitarian, explorer, leader and social worker, died at Naggar, Kulu.
9/15/1947Gandhi deplores the idea of population transfer.
9/24/1938Piloo Dara Reporter, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-87, was born in Mumbai. He was the first ever test umpire to be invited in a foreign country along with V. K. Ramaswamy also of India.
1/15/1958Tamil becomes the official language of Madras.
3/31/1998T. N. Mishra became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 04/01/99).
8/4/1997Supreme Court declares that the Rashtrapati Bhavan press communique of 23/1/1992 on a proposal to confer the Bharat Ratna 'posthumously' on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ""should be treated as cancelled"", as the proposal was dropped by the Government in deference to the sentiments expressed by the public and his family members.
1/10/1980President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy invited Indira Gandhi to form Government.
4/18/1858Bharatratna Dhondo Keshav Karve, great educationalist and social reformer, was born.