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Historical Event on 12/20/2000
Atal Behari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces the Government's decision to extend J&K ceasefire till January 26, 2001.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/11/1997 | 135 persons killed in flash floods in Shimla & Kiannaur districts of Himachal Pradesh. |
| 12/1/1989 | A 13-member Sikkim Sangram Parishad Ministry headed by Nar Bahadur Bhandari assumes office in Sikkim. |
| 8/15/1997 | The Government bans doctors from determining the sex of the foetus. |
| 2/20/1827 | Mahatma Jyotirao Govindrao Phule, great social worker and founder of `Satyashodhak Samrajya', was born in Pune. |
| 4/11/1997 | 10-month-old Deve Gowde govt. at the centre voted out of power. 292 voting against the motion of confidence in Lok Sabha, 158 for it, 6 abstaining. |
| 1/5/1990 | Mohammad Azharuddin was made captain of Indian cricket team. |
| 1/9/1923 | Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur, passed away. |
| 1/29/1931 | Gandhiji sails for England as Congress delegate to Second Round Table Conference. This conference was attended by Madan Mohan Malaviya and Sarojini Naidu. |
| 2/24/1995 | A full Bench comprising Chief Justice M.M. Pareed Pillai, TV Ramakrishna and P. Shanmugam of the Kerala High Court quashed the words ""incestuous adultery"", ""adultery coupled with cruelty"" and ""adultery coupled with desertion"" contained in Section 10 of Indian (Christian) Divorce Act. |
| 8/20/1991 | Sivarasan and Subha, the main suspects in Rajiv Gandhi case, commit suicide in Bangalore. |
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