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Historical Event on 9/10/2000

Marat Safin wins the men's singles in the US open championship.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/3/1780British officer captain Bruce conquered Gwalior fort under Major Popham after defeating Sindhiya.
9/5/1962Dr. Radhakrishnan's birthday declared as Teachers Day.
4/4/1926Martial law is declared in Calcutta as rioting continues.
12/3/1956Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story writer, passed away.
2/17/1698Aurangzeb fell to Jinjee fort, seat of Maratha power, after eight-year siege.
12/16/1867Amy Carmichael, Scotch Irish missionary, was born. She went to India in 1895 under the Zenana Missionary Society, remaining there without furlough until her death 56 years later. An invalid during her last 20 years, she worked to rescue children from the Hindus.
1/17/1997Supreme Court bans all non-forest activities including running of saw mills and mining in forest areas.
6/16/1859Anandram Dhekial Fukun, father of modern Assamia poetry and essay writer, passed away.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
1/17/1941Subhashchandra Bose went underground at Calcutta. He appeared in Moscow after sone days.