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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
5/26/1931One hundred miners were trapped beneath a blazing mine. It was thought that there were unlikely to be any survivors in Madras.
2/16/1942The third IAF unit to operate the Lysander was No.4 Squadron, formed with four aircraft on 16 February 1942. This squadron was to continue to operate the Westland aircraft until it too was re-equipped with the Hurricane in June 1943.
5/5/1966Jan Congress Party was established in Orissa.
4/2/1954Nehru calls for a halt to the build up of nuclear weapons.
8/26/1996Supreme Court asks Harshad Mehta to pay Rs. 217 crore to the Income Tax department.
6/16/1992P. D. Dhhavle, former editor of daily newspaper `Maharashtra', passed away.
6/20/1897Ratnakant Barkakti, famous Assamia poet, was born.
1/26/1950India is proclaimed a Sovereign Democratic Republic ceasing to be a British dominion and adopted Indian Constitution which came into force.
3/31/1999The PIO card, conferring privileges on persons of Indian origin settled abroad, is formally launched.
5/9/1995Two new gas and oil reserves found off the Gujarat and Bombay coast.