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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 |
3/10/1999 | Lok Sabha approves the Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999, by a voice vote. |
9/29/1959 | Arati Saha successfully swam the English Channel. She was the first Asian lady to achieve the feat. |
9/29/1959 | Akbar left for Agra when he received the report of widespread rebellion. He arrived in Ahmedabad by forced marches on the eleventh day. |
4/3/1700 | Sikandar, former sultan of Vijapur, passed away at Satara in the imprisonment of Mughals. |
9/5/1995 | 30 member Ladakh Autonomous Hill Council sworn-in that was conceded by the Government of India in 1993. |
2/27/1996 | Manmohan Singh presents the vote-on-account as part of the interim budget in Lok Sabha for 1996-97 with a Rs. 5000 crore deficit. |
10/16/1978 | Test debut of Kapil Dev, India vs Pakistan, at Faisalabad. |
12/5/1935 | Bipinchandra Joshi, chief of Indian Army general, was born. |
8/23/1933 | Mahatma Gandhi was released from government detention in the Poona Civil Hospital after doctors warned that his fast was endangering his life. Gandhi, who undertook the fast eight days ago in protest over being arrested again by British authorities, weighed 90 pounds at the time of his release. There was considerable speculation over what the nationalist leader would do upon regaining his strength, but the common assumption was that he would be arrested again by the British authorities if he resumed his civil disobedience. |
11/9/1904 | Panchanan Maheshwari was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers with different embryological studies. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchanani |
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