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Historical Event on 2/2/2000

The Government decides to appoint former Chief Justice of India M.N. Venkatachaliah as the Chairman of the National Commission to review the Constitution.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/1/1932A round-table conference on India fails to reach an agreement at London.
9/1/1981Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh PVSM, AVSM, VM., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 03/Sept/1984.
3/30/1976Shankar Puroshattam Mulgaonkar 'Raghuvir', famous painter, passed away.
3/23/1982Annasaheb Patil, father of Maratha Mahasangh, passed away.
4/1/1918Royal Air Force replaces Royal Flying Corps in Britain.
11/11/1998V. M. Devaraj (78), DMK leader and former MLA, passed away after a brief illness. He represented Vellore in 1980, 1984 and 1989. He was a close associate of the DMK founder, C. N. Annadurai.
9/5/1888Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975), panentheist, great renaissance philosopher, eminent writer, free India's first vice-president and second president, was born at Tiruttani near Madras.
12/27/1975372 miners die in a huge blast in Bihar state.
5/31/1921Suresh Hariprasad Joshi, modern Gujarati poet, story writer and critic, was born.
10/13/1911Sister Nivedita, follower of Vivekanand, died.