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Historical Event on 12/20/2000

Atal Behari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces the Government's decision to extend J&K ceasefire till January 26, 2001.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/22/1918During the First World War, India's first fighter pilot Indra Lal Rai's plane was shot down in battle by Germans planes near London. Rai had fought for Britisher's Force.
2/14/2000The Supreme Court stays the Karnataka High Court judgment quashing the State Government's Ashraya scheme for providing plots to the poor.
12/30/1935Lord Reading, former Viceroy and Governor General of India, died at the age of 76 at UK.
6/3/1929Chimanbhai Patel, former Chief Minister of Gujarat, was born.
7/16/199917 are killed and over 200 injured when the Delhi bound GT Express collides with derailed wagons of a goods train near Mathura.
11/20/1993RBI clears two more private banks: The Times Bank Ltd. and the Indus Ind Bank Ltd.
1/19/2000M.A. Chidambaram (81), leading industrialist and chairman of the MAC Group, died in Chennai.
7/25/1995India reaps a record harvest of food grain of 189.77 million tonnes ('94, 95).
1/6/1993India and Bhutan sign agreement on the giant Sankosh hydro-electric project.
8/27/1870Sharmajivi Sangha was established in Calcutta by Sashipada Banerji.