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Historical Event on 3/10/2000

Nirmal Verma, distinguished Hindi writer, and eminent Punjabi novelist Gurchal Singh selected jointly for the 35th Jnanpith Award for 1999.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/6/1988The graduated use of force finally compelled the rebels to surrender and the personnel of Godavari then took over. When psychological pressure did not succeed, warning shots were fired by both the naval ships.
6/5/1996United Front Govt's Common Minimum Programme announced.
5/31/1997Fourth National Games opened at Bangalore.
8/4/1933Gandhi is imprisoned for one year for breaking a restraint order.
10/3/1997Financial and operational autonomy to be given to 97 profit-making public sector enterprises ('mini-ratnas') other than the navaratnas.
12/11/19676.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed.
5/26/1916Rangnath Manohar Joshi (Nirmal Guruji), Marathi author, was born.
11/30/1994Mrinalini Desai, freedom fighter and famous litterateur, died.
10/15/1987Times Eye Research Foundation was established in Amritsar, India.
4/30/1996CBI concludes after 11 1/2 years of investigation that no espionage has taken place in what was dubbed the `ISRO spy scandal case'.