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Historical Event on 9/13/2000

Central Government withdraws the ban on use of non-iodised salt despite protests from the medical community and several state governments.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/25/1969India all out for 163 at Madras vs Australia, Ashley Mallett takes 5-91.
6/2/1990Sri Ram Sharma Acharya passed away. (27-6-91).
1/24/1937Gandhi announces that he will retire from politics.
7/16/1917Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, was born.
3/20/1970Establishment of Muslim Satyashodhak Samaj.
4/13/1984Kerala Government drops Silent Valley Project and declares the entire area a national park.
1/22/1986Satwant Singh, Balbir Singh and Kehar Singh, all sikhs, were sentenced to death for the assassination of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
11/3/1605Salim renamed himself as Jahangir and became the king of Agra.
2/20/1947British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced in the House of Commons, London, that Britain will release India before June 1948 and for this purpose Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed to work as the new Viceroy of India.
12/25/1999An Indian Airlines aircraft with 187 passengers on board is hijacked. The plane was going from Katmandu to New Delhi. It lands near Abu Dhabi after several hops.