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Historical Event on 03/20/1351
Muhammad Tughluq Shah II passed away at Sindh.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
12/16/1999 | India agrees to Financial System Stability Assessment (FSSA) by the IMF. |
3/23/1982 | Annasaheb Patil, father of Maratha Mahasangh, passed away. |
10/30/1992 | India and China decide to continue peace measures and open more points for border trade. |
1/9/1919 | Theophane A. Mathias, educationist, was born. |
5/20/1878 | Bahameni Sultan Dawood Shah was assassinated. |
2/7/1983 | Eastern News Agency was established in Calcutta . |
1/3/1994 | Stalemate persists on the Kashmir issue during Indo-Pak talks that concluded in Islamabad. |
3/11/1963 | First Railway Engine was produced by Chittaranjan Railway Factory. |
10/23/1970 | If 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 |
8/3/1991 | About 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. |
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