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Historical Event on 8/10/2000

Arjuna Ranatunga, former Sri Lankan cricket captain, retires from international cricket.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/19/1704Guru Govind Singh died.
12/8/1922Hari Prasad Sharma, cricket Test umpire for 3 tests from 1974-77, was born at Delhi.
7/13/1929Jatindranath Das started fast strike.
10/2/1994Gandhi Peace Prize instituted on the lines of Nobel Peace Prize on the great leader's 125th birth anniversary.
8/6/2000Sundararajan Kidambi becomes the new International Master in the Beil Open chess championship at Biel.
3/21/1939Gandhi calls on world to disarm, thinks Hitler would follow.
10/10/1844Badruddin Taibjee, lawyer and leader, was born.
3/18/1915British Government approved Indian Security Act to have greater control on the Indian people.
12/27/1976The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members who laid down their lives to repulsed several waves of Japanese attacks. Advance Base Depot is shifted to Jabalpur. The original memorial was erected on 15 April 1946 from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.
10/20/1961B. S. Guha, famous human scientist, died.