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Historical Event on 9/19/2000

Gopi Chand of India falls to Henderawan of Indonesia in the quarter-finals of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/7/1983Eastern News Agency was established in Calcutta .
11/5/1996United Front suffers a setback with one of its constituents, the Madhya Pradesh Vikas party, deciding to walk out and merge with Congress (I).
12/6/199813th Asian Games inaugurated at Bangkok.
4/1/1990Gold Control Act was withdrawn.
6/25/1943No. 8 Squadron started functioning absorbing the remaining coastal defence flight personnel, and also issued with a vengeance to achieve operational status.
8/26/1852Bombay Association was established.
2/1/1944Arun Tikekar, editor and writer, was born.
8/25/1965Sanjeev Kumar Sharma, cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1988-89), was born in Delhi.
10/14/1947Narsingh Chintaman Kelkar, great litterateur, politician and editor, died.
2/27/1992Narasimha Rao elected Congress (I) President in the party poll held after a gap of 20 years.