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Historical Event on 12/24/2000
The Government re-instates Dr. R.S.Paroda as the Director-General of the ICAR.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/25/1983 | India won 'Prudential World Cup' Cricket Championship held in England after defeating West Indies. |
| 1/17/1992 | Shankar Ramchandra (Mamrao Date), veteran journalist, passed away. |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
| 7/16/1991 | Railway budget hikes passenger fares by 15-20\% and freight up by 10\%. |
| 11/11/2000 | Harin Pathak, Union Minister of State for Defence, resigns after being chargesheeted by a sessions court in Ahmedabad in a case relating to the murder of a head constable at the height of the anti-reservation agitation in 1985. |
| 1/19/2000 | Railways retains the Lady Ratan Trophy Women's National Hockey championship. |
| 1/26/1950 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963) became the first President of India. He remained President from Jan. 26,1950 to May 13, 1962. |
| 8/3/1890 | Sriprakash, freedom fighter, prolific writer and member of the AICC, was born at Varanasi. |
| 4/5/1993 | G. V. Iyer's Sanskrit film 'Bhagavad Geeta was adjudged the best film at the National Film Awards. |
| 8/28/1879 | Battle at Ulundi, Lord Chelmsford beats king Cetshwayo's Zuluz. |
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