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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
8/17/1909Madanlal Dhingra, famous revolutionary, was hanged at Paintanville Jail for assassinating Wyle and Lal Kaka.
4/16/1963Gopal Singh Nepali, famous poet, passed away.
10/5/1989Dalai Lama was honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize (1989).
9/12/1686Aurangzeb ended Adilshah's kingdom. The garrison lost heart and surrendered Sikandar who was sent to the state prison at Daulatabad. Bijapur was invested and the city opened its gates to the Mughals. Bijapur as an independent kingdom ceased to exist.
11/5/1956University Grants Commission Act sets up UGC.
7/23/1956India celebrates the birth centenary of Bal Gangadhar ""Lokmanya"" Tilak.
9/8/1947There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood.
7/14/196985 persons were killed when a freight train collided with a passanger train near Jaipur.
6/24/1763Murshidabad was captured by the East India Company under Major Adams for the second time, and Mir Jaffar was declared the King.
6/29/1893Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, physics, mathematics expert and founder of Indian Statistical Institute, was born at Calcutta.