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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 |
| 4/27/1996 | General Election (11th) of India begins. |
| 11/7/1888 | Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, was born in Tiruchirapalli, South India. His work was influential in the growth of science in India. He was the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics for the 1928 discovery now called 'Raman scattering'--a change in frequency observed when light is scattered in a transparent material. When monochromatic or laser light is passed through a transparent gas, liquid, or solid and is observed with the spectroscope, the normal spectral line has associated with it lines of longer and of shorter wavelength called the Raman spectrum. Thus the Raman effect is applied in spectrographic chemical analysis and in the determination of molecular structure. |
| 3/21/1997 | Seven Kashmiri Pandits gunned down by militants in Sangrampura. |
| 10/5/1957 | Nehru becomes the first recipient of the key of Hiroshima Peace City. |
| 7/17/1976 | Mudliyar A. Ramaswami, Padmabhushan awardee, politician and industrialist, passed away. |
| 5/1/1879 | Swami Vivekanand established Ramkrishna Mission. |
| 8/15/1982 | Doordarshan's national programme and the first nationwide colour transmission started by Delhi Doordarshan. |
| 11/9/1942 | Jami, last evergreen poet of Parsi language, died. |
| 8/20/1988 | Earthquake measuring 6.5 on Richter Scale strikes India and Nepal. Thousands killed. |
| 10/10/1909 | Nagarwala Noshirvan Dorab, cricket umpire of five Tests, was born in Maharashtra. |
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