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Historical Event on 2/7/2000

Kamaluddin Ahmed, former APCC(I) president and four times Congress MP, joins the BJP.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/27/1930India's major cities are seething with unrest following the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi and thousands of his followers in the campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. Civil unrest in Bombay, where at least six were killed and sixty injured.
1/14/1905Durga Khote, Marathi stage artist and actress, was born.
5/6/199712 persons killed and eight seriously injured in two blasts in east Delhi.
2/10/1921Mahatma Gandhi inaugurated Kashi Vidya Peeth.
6/18/1946Congress Working Committee decides to accept Interim Government scheme.
11/9/1913Weekly 'Pratap' was published from Kanpur which was edited by Ganesh Shankar Vidyrarthi.
5/22/1940Erapalli Anantrao Srinivasarao Prasanna, cricketer (one of India's big four spinners, Right-arm Off-break Bowler), was born at Bangalore. He is also the receipent of Arjun Award (1968) and Padmashree (1970).
8/29/1976Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam of Bengal, great revolutionary, died on his visit to Dhaka in Bangladesh.
7/10/1997Malleswari earns India's first gold medal in Asian weightlifting championship in Beijing.
9/18/1972Government of India announces increase of minimum bonus to workers from 4\% to 8.33\%.