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Historical Event on 10/9/2000

The Centre appoints Yogendra Narain as the new defence secretary and K. Sibal as the secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs while effecting a major bureaucratic reshuffle.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/13/1999Atal Krishna Bihari Vajpayee became the Prime Minister of India.
12/1/1885Dattatreya Balkrishna Kalelkar, famous Gandhian Gujrathi llitterateur and educationist, was born at Satara in Maharashtra.
7/24/1985Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sikh leader Sant Harchand Singh Longowal of Akali Dal signed a peace contract known as 'Punjab Accord' thus ending the four-year agitation in Punjab.
11/23/1991Bhaskaracharya Research Institute established at Dhule.
9/14/1997Fire and explosions devastate terminals and storage tanks at Visakh Refinery of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation. Toll put at 51.
9/14/1997Radiya Sultan, first lady ruler of Delhi throne, passed away in a battle.
11/3/1991India's short range surface-to-air missile (SAM) 'Trishul' successfully tested.
5/1/1940Marathi magzine `Digdarshan' was published.
4/27/1994Supreme Court strikes down section 309 of the Indian Penal Code(which makes suicide a punishable offence)- violative of Article 21.
9/13/2000Central Government withdraws the ban on use of non-iodised salt despite protests from the medical community and several state governments.