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Historical Event on 9/19/2000

India remains committed to a unilateral moratorium on nuclear tests, but we will not allow this stand to stand in the way of our protecting India's supreme natural interest,'' said Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on his return from the US.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/31/1986Shri Vishwanath More, famous music director, passed away.
12/16/2000Indian Airlines wins the 60th National Hockey championship in Jammu.
7/24/1932Madhukar Devram Toradmal, famous actor and playwright, was born.
4/20/2000A full bench of the Madras High Court quashes the Tamil Nadu Government order making Tamil (or mother tongue) as the compulsory medium of instruction in all schools in the State up to Standard V.
2/3/1954More than 500 pilgrims died in an accident on the river bank at the ""Kumbha Mela"" in Allahabad.
12/15/1943The Vengeance suffered numerous defects and teething troubles, necessitating temporary withdrawal from the two IAF squadrons, but the problems were eventually mitigated if not eradicated, and No. 8 Sqn flew its first operational Vengeance sorties against Japanese targets from Double Moorings, Chittagong.
11/10/1698East India Company purchased Calcutta, which had not more than a village at that time.
2/8/1943Subhashchandra Bose started his journey to Japan from Kiel along with his secretary Major Abid Hassan in a submarine.
10/11/1991Resident Editor of Nagpur Times Ramnarayan Dube assassinated.
12/3/1971Pakistan took the initiative of striking the airfields both in the East and the West. While the IAF carried out retaliatory air strikes in the West and shot the Pakistan Air Force (PAP) out of the skies.