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Historical Event on 1/12/2000
Dr. Gurudev S. Khush of the Manila-based International Rice Research Institute wins the Wolf prize for Agriculture for the year 2000.

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3/25/1609	Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co. at Pulicat.
11/7/1862	Bahadurshah Jafar -II died at Rangoon in British prision.
9/6/1994	Prime Minister Narsimha Rao meets with his counterpart Vo Van Kiet at Hanoi. Both countries decide to boost ties.
10/27/1997	UP ministry expanded by inducting 70 new members thus taking the total number of a record 93 members.
9/1/1947	Indian Standard Time was adopted.
3/16/1939	Subroto Mukherjee became the first Indian Officer to command a squadron when he took over No.1.
12/24/2000	Viswanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win a world chess title in the world chess championship in Taheran.
9/27/2000	Gurucharan Singh goes down fighting to Andri Fedtchouk of Ukraine in the 81 Kg bout of the Olympics boxing.
8/7/1941	Rabindranath Devendranath Tagore ""Gurudev"", great Indian poet, voluminous playwright, Noble Laureate, social reformer, freedom fighter, painter and philosopher, passed away at Calcutta at the age on 80 years. He will be always remembered for the national song ""Jana Gana Mana"" and as a founder of Vishwa Bharati, Shantiniketen, etc.
9/24/1936	It was reported that in the past two weeks over 2 million of India's depressed classes had renounced Hinduism in favor of Christianity.

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Historical Event on 1/12/2000 Dr. Gurudev S. Khush of the Manila-based International Rice Research Institute wins the Wolf prize for Agriculture for the year 2000.

Historical Event on 1/12/2000
Dr. Gurudev S. Khush of the Manila-based International Rice Research Institute wins the Wolf prize for Agriculture for the year 2000.