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Historical Event on 9/6/2000

Telecom workers launch a nation-wide strike in protest against inadequate safeguards prior to the corporatisation of the department from October 1.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/23/1997Statue of Subhash Bose unveiled inside Parliament House.
8/16/1991C. Achuta Menon, former CM of Kerala, passed away.
10/25/1932Pearless' investment company was established.
3/22/1907Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament.
1/21/1882Vaman Malhar Joshi, Marathi novelist, was born.
7/14/1856Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, great social worker, was born.
12/15/1749Shahu Chattrapati, grandson of Shivaji, died.
5/9/1866Gopal Krishna Gokhale, freedom fighter and political leader, was born in Kotluk village of Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra.
9/29/1907Labour MP James Keir Hardie accuses UK of running India 'like the Czar runs Russia'
9/29/1907Nasiru'd-din Muhammad Shah I passed away. His son-in-law Ghiyasu'd-din Balban succeeded Nasiru'd-din Mahmud in Delhi.