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Historical Event on 12/24/2000

Viswanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win a world chess title in the world chess championship in Taheran.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/10/1970Union Government ruled out judicial probe into the death of the late PM Lal Bahadur Shastri.
8/15/1947Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first Indian Prime Minister of free India.
1/14/1998Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen, Economist, is sworn in new Master of the Trinity College. He is the first Asian to head a Cambridge College.
4/8/1993Dasarath Deb, veteran tribal leader, elected leader of the Left and Democratic Front legislature party in Tripura.
9/30/1972Pakistani troops shell into the Indian zone of Kashmir.
12/5/1898Josh Malihabadi, famous Urdu poet, was born.
8/2/1942Gandhi says that the Japanese might be welcomed in India should they invade due to current Indian discontent.
1/5/1994Jnanpith Award for Oriya Poet Sitakant Mahapatra.
12/31/1996Gold import policy liberalised.
8/6/1925Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.