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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 |
| 5/7/1996 | Third and final phase of polling begins for 185 LS constituencies and 154 assembly constituencies; 55 to 60\% turnout was witnessed and there was widespread violence in Bihar. |
| 8/25/1992 | Veerappa Moily, Karnataka minister, stripped of Education portfolio. |
| 1/9/1994 | Indian diplomats and staff members evacuated from war-ravaged Kabul. |
| 1/14/1991 | Chitragupta, famous film music director, passed away. |
| 2/16/1986 | The Silver Jubilee of I.N.S.- Vikrant, India's only aircraft carrier, fails. |
| 6/22/1996 | Saurav Ganguly scores 131 at Lord's on Test debut. |
| 1/8/1964 | Jack ""Murph the Surf"" Murphy, 27, and a companion were arrested in Miami as suspects in the theft of $410,000 rare gems from the American Museum of Natural History in October of last year. The world's largest sapphire, the Star of India, and eight of the other 22 stolen gems were returned to New York in an attorney's coat pocket, having been recovered in two water-logged suede pouches from a Miami bus terminal locker with the help of a third suspect. The three described themselves as ""beach boys."" Murphy is a sometimes an aquatic clown, but mainly they were notorious jewel thieves. Murphy was also accused of pistol-whipping actress Eva Gabor and stealing jewels worth $50,000 from her a year ago. |
| 12/6/1962 | India closes its consulates in Communist China. |
| 11/30/1920 | N. B. Kamat, filmmaker and distributor, was born. |
| 9/24/1932 | Preetilata Waddedara, the first armed woman revolutionary, was hanged for ""Chatgaon Ammunitions Plot"". |
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