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Historical Event on 10/1/2000

Ram Vilas Paswan, Communications Minister, launched the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited having total functional autonomy.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/23/1872Tanguturi Prakasam, great lawyer, journalist, nationalist, politician, leader, social reformer and former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, was born at Kanuparthi village in Ongole district in Andhra Pradesh.
5/24/1813Krishna Mohan Bandopadhyay, leader, essay writer and journalist in Bengal, was born.
3/13/1958Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet, literateur and writer,died at the age of 80.
5/3/1969Dr. Zakir Hussain(1897-1969), third President of India and the first Muslim President who occupied this office on 13 May, 1967, passed away. He is also remembered as an educationist.
7/10/1991Shivraj Patil of Congress elected Speaker of 10th Lok Sabha.
10/21/1762Herman W Daendels, Brig-General and Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1807-11), was born.
3/25/1998Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, and Railway Minister Nitish Kumar present the interim budgets for 1998- 99.
5/8/1910Tolstoy replies to Gandhiji that question of Passive Resistance is of greatest importance, not only for India but for humanity.
9/4/1999Umesh Chandra, Assistant Inspector General of Police, shot dead by the PWG in Hyderabad.
11/13/1999Punjab Police men, Railways women emerged Federation Cup basketball champions in Jalandhar.