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Historical Event on 8/30/2000
A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announced a package for small units raising the ceiling on loans from Rs. 10 lakhs to Rs. 25 lakhs. For the handloom sector, a separate scheme costing Rs. 447 crores was also finalised.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/11/1903 | Shrinagesh M. M, former General, was born. |
| 9/29/2000 | India loses to Britain in the play off for the fifth and sixth places in the hockey match at the Sydney Olympics. |
| 6/22/1880 | Nilmoni Phukan, greatest social reformer, prolific writer of Assam, poet, editor, journalist and lawyer, was born at Dibrugarh, Assam. |
| 4/27/1857 | Jamshedji Framji Madan ( J. F. Madan ), founder of India's first Cinema Hall - 'Elphinstone Palace' at Calcutta, Madan & Co. and Parsi Theatrical Company, was born. |
| 9/22/1979 | Israel conducts nuclear test at Indian Ocean. |
| 2/14/1994 | The controversial Supreme Court Judge V.Ramaswami, who survived an impeachment motion in Parliament, retires. |
| 12/17/1974 | Ustad Gulam Sabir, famous Sarangi player, died at Kanpur. |
| 10/20/1992 | Nirad C. Chauduri, 94, the Indian writer living in Oxford, made honorary Commander of the British Empire. |
| 2/2/1982 | Geet Sethi becomes the youngest Indian to win the National Billiards' crown at Madras. |
| 8/21/1978 | Vinoo Mankad, cricketer, died. He played 44 tests for India and had 2109 runs and took 162 wickets. |
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