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Historical Event on 9/8/2000
Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/23/1976 | Gautam Buddha's lost city of Kapilavastu was found in an excavation. |
| 12/24/1809 | Christopher ""Kit"" Carson, KY, union brig-general and Indian fighter, was born. |
| 10/3/1831 | Britishers captured Mysore. |
| 4/15/1927 | Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi, was born. |
| 9/19/1996 | India Development Forum pledges $7b. to India. |
| 7/31/1933 | Gandhiji was arrested from Sabarmati Ashram and imprisoned without trial. |
| 9/15/1948 | The India flag carrying vessel reached Bombay Port. |
| 11/20/1942 | Attri Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested for further six months. She was earlier arrested for personal satyagraha and to hoist the national flag in Delhi Central Jail on January 26. |
| 7/26/1923 | Mukeshchandra Mathur, famous playback singer, was born. |
| 7/26/1923 | The Sultan, losing his hold over the army and some members of his aristocracy, very wisely abdicated in favour of his brother Ahmad, who is famous in Deccan history as Ahmad Shah Wali. |
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