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Historical Event on 11/8/2000

India wins the men's team title in the World Carrom championship in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/18/1983Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer 55 Tests for India, 3208 runs @ 39.12, died.
10/20/1905Mohansing Mahir, famous modern Punjabi poet, was born.
3/17/19674th Parliament (Lok Sabha) was formed.
7/14/1856Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, great social worker, was born.
6/23/1895Kali Charan Ghosh, great Hindi writer, was born at Calcutta.
3/3/1891Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept) created.
6/19/1999The ''people's bus'' from Calcutta rolls into Dhaka and is formally received by the Prime Minister and his Bangladesh counterpart.
1/8/1908Gandhiji asks the Government for suspension of Registration Act, offers voluntary registration.
3/28/1914Komagata Maru sailed from Hong Kong to Vancouver with 351 Sikhs and 21 Punjabi Muslim youths under the captaincy of Sardar Gurjeet Singh as a part of 'Ghadar' Movement.
3/17/1909Pandit Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar, educationist and internationally famed Sanskrit scholar, was born at Satara, Maharashtra.