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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 |
| 2/27/1803 | Great fire in Bombay. |
| 2/27/1803 | Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe. |
| 9/6/1889 | Sarat Chandra Bose, freedom fighter, journalist and leader, was born. |
| 7/31/1861 | 9,300 mm rainfall in July in Cherrapunji, Assam becomes a world record. |
| 9/13/1997 | India drubs Maldives in SAFF football final in Kathmandu. |
| 3/4/1939 | Lala Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist and freedom fighter, passed away at Philadelphia. |
| 8/17/1932 | V.S. Naipaul, great Indian writer, was born. |
| 9/29/1708 | British East India Company and New East India company merged. |
| 6/1/1996 | H.D. Deve Gowda's 21-member Central cabinet sworn in. |
| 4/3/1966 | First Indian-made computer commissioned in Jadavpur University campus. |
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