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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 |
2/16/1905 | Padmabhushan Aliyawar Jang, former Governor of Maharashtra, was born. |
4/6/1919 | Mahatma Gandhi declared an All India Strike against the Rollatt Act .This was the first strike. |
9/2/1946 | Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, passed away. |
2/25/1998 | Tendulkar's first first-class 204* for Mumbai vs Australia. |
3/5/1995 | India and China agree to open two new border points including Nathu La (Sikkim) to facilitate meetings between their military personnel. |
4/13/1851 | Ganga Ram, great social reformer and an assistant engineer in the Public Works Department, Punjab, was born at Mangtanwala, now in Pakistan. |
6/2/1992 | The government accepts all the 15 recommendations of the Janakiraman Committee which unearthed massive collusion of banks in the security scam. |
12/22/1986 | India cricket team score 7-676 vs Sri Lanka at Kanpur. |
12/1/1982 | Pakistan beats India to win hockey gold in the Asian Games. |
10/15/1931 | Avil 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 |
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