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Historical Event on 11/1/2000

Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Union Minister for Sports, releases the CBI report on match-fixing in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/15/1865Kishorilal Goswami, Hindi novelist, was born.
12/29/1968Chunilal Kalidas Madiya, famous Gujrathi playwright, story writer and novelist, died.
4/14/1990L. P. Poarbosa sworn in as CM of Goa.
10/1/1990Constitution's 75th amendment bill to extend President's rule in Punjab for another six months fails through the first stage in Lok Sabha for want of a simple majority.
5/8/1959Dalai Lama will not be allowed to campaign for Tibetan independence in India. India wants to maintain friendly relations with Communist China.
8/29/1612Battle at Surat in India; English fleet beats Portuguese.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
6/28/1921Sahityaratna P. V. Narsingh Rao, former Prime Minister of India, was born.
1/23/1961Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films.
6/12/1891Gandhiji sailed for India and reached in July.