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Historical Event on 9/11/2000

A Delhi High Court exonerates senior Congress(I) leader and former Union Minister H.K.L. Bhagat in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case in Delhi (in Mansarovar Park in East Delhi on November 1, 1984).

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/4/1925Jyotirindranath Tagore, great Bengali litterateur and poet, passed away.
5/26/2000In a significant development, the Government decides to allow disinvestment up to 60 per cent equity of Air India.
5/25/1941Sagarmal Gopa, a devoted patriot and freedom fighter, was arrested in Jaisalmer. He wrote two books ""Jaisalmer Rajya ka Gunda Shasan"" and ""Raghunath Singh Ka Mukadma"" for which he was prohibited to enter in Jaisalmer.
9/21/1966Mihir Sen swam the Bay of Persia.
2/17/1968Dr. Kailas Nath Katju, freedom fighter, politician, leader, Governor of Orissa and West Bengal, passed away.
5/23/1967South Gujrat University was established.
11/27/1870Dattatreya Balwant Parasnis, famous history researcher and collector of historical items, was born.
10/1/1981Activists of the Dal Khalsa, who masterminded the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane. arrested.
10/1/1981Queen Elizabeth I granted its Royal Charter to the 218 Knights and merchants of the City of London who formed the East India Company. The venture failed to achieve its stated objectives -- it made little impression on the Dutch control of the spice trade and could not establish a lasting outpost in the East Indies.
7/22/1991New industrial policy for liberalisation of economies announced in Parliament.