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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
10/6/1862Indian Penal Code was notified. However, it was implemented from 1st January 1862.
6/3/1895Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, historian and Indian diplomat (Asia & Western Dominance), was born.
9/19/1996India Development Forum pledges $7b. to India.
2/4/1974Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924.
4/18/1970Dr. Dharmendra of the Indian Council of Medical Research awarded the Damien-Duttan Award for outstanding work in leprosy.
6/9/1957General Election ( 2nd) of India ends.
9/15/1909Thiru Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai, ''Anna'', founder of DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, also an editor, writer, orator and patriot, was born in a weaver community of Kanchipuram.
6/6/1909Morappakam Joysam Gopalan, cricketer (1 Test India v England 1933-34), was born in Maduranthakam, Madras.
10/9/1970Production of Uranium 233 started at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Bombay.
9/10/1887Govind Ballabh Pant was born in village Khunt, Almora District, U.P. He served eight years as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He was as outstanding parliamentary figure of his days. He was awarded with Bharat Ratna in 1959.