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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
5/26/1957Janta Insurance Scheme was inaugurated in Bombay.
6/29/1873Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, first Bengali modern poet, died.
2/23/1962The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).
2/6/2000''Water'' shooting stopped following suicide by a Shiv Sena activist; and director, Ms. Deepa Mehta asked to leave Varanasi.
7/24/1997Country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna conferred on former interim Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda and posthumously on freedom-fighter Aruna Asaf Ali.
7/16/199917 are killed and over 200 injured when the Delhi bound GT Express collides with derailed wagons of a goods train near Mathura.
9/25/1914Devilal, former deputy Prime Minister of India and leader of farmers, was born.
4/16/1930Baba Kanshi Ram, freedom fighter and social reformer, was arrested by British police.
12/14/1968Chaggan Baba (Chagganlal Karamshi Parekh), great social worker and founder of Mahila Griha Udyog and Lijjat Papad, died.
6/24/1986Government announced that unmarried mothers under its employment would also get maternity leave.