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Historical Event on 7/6/2000

India, Nepal sign agreement to set up a specialist joint unit to counter terrorism and share information about criminals operating along the border.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/11/1966Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"".
4/13/1947Diplomatic relations between India and Russia established.
6/9/199881 persons are killed as cyclone hits the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat and Jalore district of Rajasthan. Subsequently, the toll is put at 934 in the Kutch-Saurashtra region alone.
4/27/1907Fearing uprising in Punjab, British arm volunteers.
10/4/1997Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2D), fourth satellite in INSAT-2 series, became inoperable due to power bus anomaly. This satellite had capabilities such as mobile satellite service, business communication and television outreach beyond Indian boundaries.
9/10/1976An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 aeroplane was hijacked for the second time and taken to Lahore, Pakistan.
4/24/1932450 people seized by British for defying ban on Indian National Congress.
4/24/1932Guru Arjun Dev, Sikh Guru, was born.
8/3/1886Maithili Sharan Gupta, first man of modern Hindi poetry and literature, writer, patriot and social worker, was born at Chirgaon village near Jhansi.
10/26/1996CBI detects a chain of bank transactions between August '93 and February '96 by four JMM leaders.