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Historical Event on 12/16/2000

Kalyan Banerjee becomes the first Indian to head the Rotary Foundation, one of the richest bodies of the Rotary International.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/5/1906Ursula Jeans, actress (I Lived With You, Over the Moon), was born in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
9/18/1967English was adopted the official language of Nagaland .
12/13/1999The Government lodges protest with the Pakistani Rangers following the discovery of a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border.
8/14/1998The Government transferred Revenue Secretary N. K. Singh and Finance Secretary Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
12/10/1913The Nobel prize for literature was awarded this year to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet from India.
6/1/1997Union Minister for Forests and Environment, Prof. Saifuddin Soz announces Rs. 9 crore central package for afforestation and eco-development in J&K.
1/22/1967Atomic Energy Center was renamed after Homi Jahangir Bhabha as 'Bhabha Atomic Research Centre' at Trombay, Mumbai.
9/9/2000Venus Williams wins the women's singles in the U.S. Open championship.
4/23/1959Peking Radio reports say that Chinese troops defeated rebels in south-eastern Tibet and have closed Tibet's borders with India and Burma.
9/11/1948Indian Government troops enter in the Hyderabad State.
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