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Historical Event on 4/1/2000

India wins four golds in the under-14 Youth chess championship in Teheran.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/19/1969Indian Government nationalised 14 major commercial banks of India by Presidental ordinance.
3/27/1989T. N. Seshan was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 23-12-1989.
4/12/1991Lok Sabha elections announced for May 20, 23, 26; Punjab Assam, J&K polls deferred.
9/19/1936Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, expert in north Indian classical music, died. He was also a lawyer, professor and social reformer.
3/15/1983Farukh Abdul Latif, great politician and journalist, was born.
4/18/1898Damodar Hari Chapekar, India's first revolutionary, was hanged in the Yervada Central Jail. He was punished for killing the Rand and Ayrest British Officials.
10/16/1896Govindas Seth, hindi litterateur and politician, was born.
6/18/2000K.M. Beenamol breaks P.T. Usha's record in 400m at 51.21 sec in an international meet at Kiev in Ukraine.
7/17/1976Mudliyar A. Ramaswami, Padmabhushan awardee, politician and industrialist, passed away.
11/10/1990Two Burmese youth hijack a Thai Airlines Airbus with 221 passengers on board to Calcutta.