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Historical Event on 9/19/2000

Gopi Chand of India falls to Henderawan of Indonesia in the quarter-finals of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/7/1991Salauddin and his wife Neena create a world record by travelling in a Nissan car.
6/13/1998India rejects G-8 prescriptions saying they are ''coercive and intrusive'' and intend to freeze the nuclear weapon capabilities of New Delhi and Islamabad.
7/4/2000Volvo's Environmental Prize went to Prof. Amulya K. N. Reddy of India and three others for their work on ''How the world's energy resources can be made to suffice as the population grows''.
12/8/1932Indian Air Force Act was passed.
11/15/1875Birsa Munda, freedom fighter and leader, was born at Ulihatu, Ranchi district, Bihar.
4/21/1938Muhammad Iqbal, famous Urdu poet, passed away.
12/28/1984Eighth General Election of India ends. Indian National Congress party wins with thumping majority.
12/25/1974Indian Aeroplane Jumbo 747 was hijacked and taken over to Rome.
12/25/1974Admiral 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.
9/13/1990An attempt to hijack a Coimbatore-Bangalore-Madras Indian Airlines flight IC 534 to Sri Lanka.