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Historical Event on 9/8/2000
Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/19/1921 | Pandurangshastri Athvle, founder of 'Swadhyay Pariwar', was born. |
| 4/15/1947 | Issues with Jinnah a joint appeal for communal peace. |
| 1/14/1998 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to M. S. Subbualakshmi (b 1916). |
| 11/9/2000 | The 17-day old Manohar Parrikar led BJP Government in Goa wins the trust vote. |
| 9/18/1992 | Andhra government's order of setting up 12 private medical colleges quashed by a full bench of the High Court. |
| 2/22/1858 | Gannau resident of Samosa Gali in Delhi, arrested for revolutionary activities, was hanged. |
| 11/11/2000 | Harin Pathak, Union Minister of State for Defence, resigns after being chargesheeted by a sessions court in Ahmedabad in a case relating to the murder of a head constable at the height of the anti-reservation agitation in 1985. |
| 10/30/1909 | Homi Jahangir Bhabha, famous nuclear scientist, was born in Bombay. |
| 10/30/1909 | Sikandar Sur was compelled to surrender Mankot in Punjab. |
| 9/5/1990 | Rajya Sabha approves the Prasar Bharati Bill rejecting by voice vote three motions moved by the Congress(I) to refer the Bill to a joint select committee. |
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