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Historical Event on 9/8/2000

Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/25/1987India all out for 75 vs West Indies at Delhi. Patterson took 5-24.
11/25/1987Vasco De Gama departed with his fleet from Lisbon Harbour for a trip to India .
1/30/1905Pitamber Das, social reformer and politician, was born at Mowana, U.P.
11/2/1984Violence following Indira Gandhi's assassination takes heavy toll.
2/18/199247 die in Tamil Nadu's Kumbakonam Mahamakham stampede.
3/27/1942Gandhiji meets Sir Stafford Cripps in New Delhi; later declares Cripps proposals to be a ""post-dated cheque"".
6/29/1924Ezra Laderman, NYC, composer (Jacob & the Indians), was born.
4/8/1950Nehru and Ali Khan sign the Indo-Pakistani Pact.
6/11/1964Dr. Jayant Narlikar, great mathematician of India, submitted his thesis to Royal Society of London.
8/12/199272 militants surrendered before Punjab CM Beant Singh.