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Historical Event on 03/20/1351

Muhammad Tughluq Shah II passed away at Sindh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/16/1999India agrees to Financial System Stability Assessment (FSSA) by the IMF.
3/23/1982Annasaheb Patil, father of Maratha Mahasangh, passed away.
10/30/1992India and China decide to continue peace measures and open more points for border trade.
1/9/1919Theophane A. Mathias, educationist, was born.
5/20/1878Bahameni Sultan Dawood Shah was assassinated.
2/7/1983Eastern News Agency was established in Calcutta .
1/3/1994Stalemate persists on the Kashmir issue during Indo-Pak talks that concluded in Islamabad.
3/11/1963First Railway Engine was produced by Chittaranjan Railway Factory.
10/23/1970If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour
8/3/1991About 280 kgs of gold ornaments valued at $15 million, which had been deposited in the Portuguese bank in Goa by its natives, flown back to India.