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Historical Event on 12/20/2000

The Government accepts the Eleventh Finance Commission recommendation to extend grants to all the States from the Incentive Fund.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/28/1990Union Cabinet approves re-induction of Airbus A-320 in the domestic sector.
11/19/1924Amarjit Singh, great educationist and scientist, was born at Punjab.
9/18/1615Thomas Roe presented himself at Jahangir's court in Ajmer. He left India on February 17, 1618.
7/21/1934Chandrakant Gulabrao Borde, cricket batsman (55 Tests for India 1959-67), was born in Pune.
2/5/1986Laxmanrao Sardesai, famous Marathi and Konkani litterateur, passed away.
11/15/1992At least 170 people die in heavy rains and floods in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
12/12/1908Gaandhiji released from Volksrust Gaol. Indian National Congress adopts resolution on South Africa, criticizing the harsh, humiliating and cruel treatment to British Indians in South Africa as injurious to English Empire.
10/27/1989The XIV-World Congress of Neurology was held in New Delhi under the auspices of the World Federation of Neurology and Neurology Society of India. (21-10-89).
11/29/1989Rajiv Gandhi resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India.
11/8/1988Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' awarded 1988 Whitbread Prize.