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Historical Event on 9/19/2000

India remains committed to a unilateral moratorium on nuclear tests, but we will not allow this stand to stand in the way of our protecting India's supreme natural interest,'' said Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on his return from the US.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/15/1947At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect.
4/27/1942Gandhi condemns stationing of U.S. troops in India.
8/14/1998The Government transferred Revenue Secretary N. K. Singh and Finance Secretary Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
4/24/1994S. L. Kirloskar, 91, industrial magnate, passed away in Pune.
12/16/1924Nissim Ezekiel, educationist and author, was born.
8/15/1947Indian Independence Day.
1/26/1992BJP President Dr. Murali Manohar Joshi hoists the national flag at the heavily-guarded Lal Chowk in Srinagar.
3/17/1991The first Indian Remote Sensing Satellite IRS-IA completes three years of successful operation. (18-3-91).
2/4/1953Indo-Pak talk on Kashmir opened under Dr. Graham in Geneva.
4/10/1875Swami Dayanand Saraswati established the Arya Samaj at Bombay and in 1877 in Lahore.