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Historical Event on 2/6/2000

''Water'' shooting stopped following suicide by a Shiv Sena activist; and director, Ms. Deepa Mehta asked to leave Varanasi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/26/1934Akhil Bharatiya Gramin Udyog Sangh (All India Small Scale Industries Association) was founded and inaugrated by Mahatma Gandhi.
5/28/1925Awadh Kishore Narain, educationist, was born.
5/12/1937George VI is crowned.
6/11/1921Snehlata, social reformer and politician, was born at Mathura, U.P.
8/26/1984An Indian Airlines Boeing with 68 passengers and a crew of six hijacked to Lahore. The 12 Sikh hijackers then surrendered to the authorities in the U.A.E and released all the passengers.
4/2/1987Indian Standards Institution becomes Bureau of Indian Standards.
7/21/1947Indian Constitution Assembly accepted the tricolour flag as its National Flag. This flag is with three equal horizontal stripes of Saffron (Sacrifice), White (Truth) and Green (Prosperity) and a Chakra is superimposed on white (Dharma Chakra on the capitol of Ashoka's Pillar at Sarnath) in blue colour having 24 spokes. The ratio of the width to length is two to three.
8/15/1947Hindu-Muslim association in Calcutta.
12/11/1783Peshwa Raghobadada, who ruled upto Atak, passed away.
5/12/1998Yeltsin feels let down by the Indian nuclear tests but says that Indo-Russian ties will not be hit.