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Historical Event on 9/16/2000
Aparna Popat loses to Kelly Morgan in the first round of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/27/1992 | Narasimha Rao elected Congress (I) President in the party poll held after a gap of 20 years. |
| 7/12/1920 | Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born. |
| 8/27/1978 | Lord Mountbatten died in an explosion near Ireland. |
| 8/21/1981 | Dattatrey Balkrishna Kalelkar ""Kakasaheb"", freedom fighter, passed away at the age of 96. |
| 6/7/1984 | Indian Army troops, sent to Punjab to quell Sikh violence, stormed the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the holiest of Sikh shrines. More than 400 persons were reported killed in the assault at the shrine, including Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. |
| 11/1/1949 | Thomason Collage at Roorkee, Uttar Pradesh, was raised to the status of an Engineering University - the first of its kind in India. |
| 10/9/1996 | PVN Rao granted anticipatory bail in St. Kitts forgery case till Oct. 14. |
| 5/2/1968 | Lok Sabha passed the Public Providend Fund Act. |
| 3/28/1991 | Chautala asked by Governor to prove his majority on the floor of the house. |
| 9/21/1994 | Outbreak of pneumonic plague in Surat, Gujarat. |
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