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Historical Event on 12/20/1999

Win Chadha ready to come to India to face trial in the Bofors case.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/4/1976Lok Sabha's life extended by one year.
4/26/1924Ramabai Ranade, social reformer, passed away. She played a major role in the upliftment of women in India and founded Sevasadan in Bombay, a hostel for the ladies.
6/14/1997Rajya Sabha chairman recognises split in AIADMK parliamentary party and designates Jayalalitha-led AIADMK as AIADMK(I) and Thirunavukkarasu group as AIADMK(II).
9/3/1992Delhi High Court verdict on Bofors challenged in the Supreme Court.
8/2/1858British parliament passed the act to handover the administration of India to British Government from East India Company. After the occasion, the Supreme British ruler in India was called as 'Viceroy'.
11/25/1995Namibian PM Hoge S. Geingob arrives in New Delhi.
8/28/1904First car rally between Calcutta to Barakpur held.
2/15/1945Indian troops capture Pagan at Burma.
12/12/1925Ghulam Mustafa Guard, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in 2 Tests for India 1959), was born in Surat, Gujarat.
7/23/1990Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Indian Prime Minister and Gorbachev sign joint declaration committing their countries to building a nuclear-free and non-violent world in the first Indian-Soviet summit in the post-Gorbachev Soviet Union in Moscow.