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Historical Event on 12/24/2000

Viswanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win a world chess title in the world chess championship in Taheran.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/13/1991P. Sudhir Kumar released in exchange for a few Naxals in jail.
5/1/1948Baroda State merged into Bombay Province.
12/10/1998Prof. Amartya Sen receives the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics.
12/10/1998Akbar won the war near Ahmedabad and captured Gujrat.
12/14/1999G.M.C. Balayogi, Lok Sabha speaker, presents a draft for over Rs. 32 lakhs to the Prime Minister for the Kargil Fund.
3/26/199914 tonnes of heavy water leaked into the second unit of the Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) at Kalpakkam during an in-service inspection.
4/11/1906K.V. Jagannathan, great Hindi writer and journalist, was born at Krishnarayapuram,Tamil Nadu.
11/8/1965British Indian Ocean Territory formed.
3/16/1993Central government introduces pension scheme for 170 million EPF subscribers.
7/13/1964Utpal Chatterjee, cricketer (Bengal slow left-arm bowler), was born in Calcutta.