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Historical Event on 12/1/2000
There would be a cap of 20 per cent equity for broadcasters planning to operate DTH television services, said I&B minister Sushma Swaraj.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/1/1973 | Indian General Insurance Corporation nationalised. |
| 2/8/1785 | Warren Hastings, British Viceroy, left India. |
| 4/30/1843 | Ramchandra Bhikaji Gunjikar, marathi novelist and editor, was born. |
| 5/25/1979 | Commercial Unity Day started. |
| 11/14/1967 | Kanakaiya Nayudu Colonel Cottari , cricketer (7 Tests for India in 30's), passed away at Indore. |
| 4/18/1916 | Iyyer G. Subramaniam, Congress leader, passed away. |
| 1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
| 3/13/1947 | Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as Viceroy of British India. He ruled upto 14th August, 1947. |
| 1/10/1998 | Geet Sethi retains National billiards title in Calcutta. |
| 3/5/1995 | India and China agree to open two new border points including Nathu La (Sikkim) to facilitate meetings between their military personnel. |
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