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Historical Event on 10/10/2000
The world's first elected woman Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike died of heart attack in Colombo.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/1/1847 | Annie Besant, famous philosopher and thesophist, was born in London. |
| 12/9/1873 | Lord Northbrook, Viceroy and Governor General of India laid the foundation stone of the building. |
| 12/25/1964 | Indian Ocean hurricane kills 4,000 in Ceylon, 3,000 in Indian province of Madras. |
| 1/12/1946 | De-monetisation of currency notes of the value of Rs. 500 and above. |
| 4/1/1839 | Medical College Hospital in Calcutta having only 20 beds was opened for male patients . |
| 3/1/1908 | A.E.T. Barrow, educationist, was born. |
| 11/1/1930 | S. R. Bose, cricket test umpire for one test in 1983-84, was born in Bihar. |
| 10/28/1929 | Narotam Puna, cricketer (Bombay NZ off-spinner v England 1966), was born. |
| 3/6/1915 | Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore met for the first time at Shantiniketan. |
| 8/22/1877 | Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great painter, philosopher, linguist, critic, art researcher in the East, was born at Colombo in Sri Lanka. |
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