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Historical Event on 10/15/2000
Sachin Tendulkar becomes the highest run-getter in one-day internationals (9379 runs) during his innings of 69 in the final of the ICC cricket tournament against New Zealand
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/7/1997 | Banned Maoist Communist Centre guns down at least 30 CPI (M) liberation activists, including district committee members and workers, at Ankendar village, 40 km from the district headquarters of Chatra in Bihar. |
| 4/3/1999 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation. |
| 9/18/1965 | Communist government threatens dire consequences on discovering Indian bases on the Chinese side of the China-Sikkim frontier in China. |
| 6/16/1950 | Mithun Chakravorty, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
| 1/31/1963 | Peacock declared as National Bird of India. |
| 10/3/1890 | Laxminarayan Sahu, litterateur, journalist and social reformer, was born. |
| 3/8/1941 | Sir Jorge Abraham Gearson, philologist and archealogist, passed away. |
| 1/19/1960 | Ramchandra Gopal (Dadasaheb Torne), famous film director, passed away. |
| 10/24/2000 | Sitaram Kesri (81), former Congress President, died at the AIIMS in New Delhi. |
| 2/18/1997 | Dhaniram Baruah, controversial heart surgeon who claimed to have transplanted a pig's heart into one of his patients, released on bail in Guwahati. |
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