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Historical Event on 12/24/2000
Viswanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win a world chess title in the world chess championship in Taheran.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/11/1795 | Battle at Kurdla India, Mahratten beat Mughals. |
| 9/26/1956 | Laxmanrao Kirloskar, great social reformer, industrialist, patriot and founder of the Kirloskar Industries, passed away at the age of 88. |
| 4/4/1905 | More than 10,000 people are feared to have perished in an earthquake that hit the northeast Indian province of Lahore during the night. The town of Dharmsala was almost completely razed to the ground with the entire population rendered homeless and sleeping out in icy conditions. Five hundred Gurkha soldiers were buried alive when their stonebuilt barracks collapsed on them. The towns of Kangra and Palampur have also been leveled to the ground by the worst natural disaster measured at 8 on Ricter Scale. In Lahore, 70 Hindus were killed, Muslim inhabitants were parading in the streets, weeping and offering up prayers with ceremonial rites. Several British administrators and missionaries were known to have been killed or injured. At Simla, Lady Curzon, wife of the Viceroy, had a close escape from death when a chimney crashed into the room in which she was sleeping. |
| 2/10/1910 | Smt. Durga Bhagwat, veteran Marathi writer, was born. |
| 6/15/1947 | All-India Congress accepts British plan for partition of India in New Delhi. |
| 7/22/1998 | 24-year old P T Usha won bronze medals in the 400m and 200m races and anchored the 4x100m relay team to gold and 4x400m for silver at the Asian Track and Field Championships in Fukuoka, Japan. |
| 10/24/1991 | Ismat Chugtai, famous Urdu author, social worker and campaigner for justice for women, died at the age of 80 years. |
| 5/1/1977 | Janata Party was established. |
| 7/20/1969 | M. Hidayatullah became the first acting President of India. |
| 11/15/1982 | S. N. Katkar, famous poet and former editor of 'Yugvani', died. |
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