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Historical Event on 9/9/2000

Venus Williams wins the women's singles in the U.S. Open championship.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/16/1905Padmabhushan Aliyawar Jang, former Governor of Maharashtra, was born.
4/6/1919Mahatma Gandhi declared an All India Strike against the Rollatt Act .This was the first strike.
9/2/1946Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, passed away.
2/25/1998Tendulkar's first first-class 204* for Mumbai vs Australia.
3/5/1995India and China agree to open two new border points including Nathu La (Sikkim) to facilitate meetings between their military personnel.
4/13/1851Ganga Ram, great social reformer and an assistant engineer in the Public Works Department, Punjab, was born at Mangtanwala, now in Pakistan.
6/2/1992The government accepts all the 15 recommendations of the Janakiraman Committee which unearthed massive collusion of banks in the security scam.
12/22/1986India cricket team score 7-676 vs Sri Lanka at Kanpur.
12/1/1982Pakistan beats India to win hockey gold in the Asian Games.
10/15/1931Avil Pakir Jalaluddin Abdul Kalam better known as "APJ", famous Indian scientist, was born in the temple town of Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu. He is the pioneer of India's missile programme and was awarded the country's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, in 1997, for his immense and valuable contribution to scientific research and modernisation of defence technol