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Historical Event on 3/20/2000

Unidentified militants gun down 35 Sikhs in the south Kashmir village of Chatti Singhpora in one of the worst incidents of violence in the State.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/10/1911Jatin Chakravorty, social reformer, politician and trade unionist, was born at Comilla, Bangladesh.
4/24/1996SC holds that bank managers acting beyond their authority in allowing overdrafts and passing cheques would be amounted to committing misconduct.
10/19/1888Namakkal Kavignar, Gandhian poet and painter, was born at Mohanur in Salem.
6/23/1920Kesri Jagannathrao Joshi, senior leader of Janata Party in Karnataka, was born.
8/1/1997Lt. Gen. Ved Prakash Malik to be next chief of Army staff. Gen. Shankar Roy Chowdhury retires on September 30.
9/9/1941Syed Abid Ali, great Indian medium pace-bowler and all-rounder, was born at Hyderabad.
10/24/2000Delhi High Court admitted the appeal of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao against the lower court judgement in the JMM MPs' bribery case.
4/22/1996Hiteshwar Saikia, chief minister of Assam (1991-96), passed away at the age of 62 years, and Dr. Bhumidhar Barman became new CM.
4/12/1752Agreement to save the king between Shinde and Holkar.
4/29/1998India and Myanmar agree upon steps to ensure trans-border security, cooperation in the fight against trafficking of narcotics and implementation of mutually beneficial cross-border projects.