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Historical Event on 6/13/2000
Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, announces a one-time settlement of outstanding loans below Rs. 10 crores in a move aimed at ridding the public sector banks of Rs. 51,000 crores of bad loans.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/8/1953 | Walchand Hirachand, great Industrialist, passed away. |
| 5/2/1769 | Sir John Malcom, former Governor of Mumbai and historian, was born. |
| 4/4/1912 | Dhundiraj Gopal Sapre, Sahityaratna and Sanskrit litterateur, was born. |
| 3/3/1989 | Gwal Pahari in Haryana switched on the solar energy centre of the first pilot 50 kilowatt solar power plant. |
| 10/2/1942 | Menka Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested by the police when she and her friends were carrying out Gandhi Jayanti procession. She was tortured with cigar butts and the administration set her house on fire. |
| 1/31/1903 | Smt. Sharda Bhaurao Diwan, educationalist, was born. |
| 9/16/1977 | Kesarbai Kerkar, famous classical singer, died in Bombay. |
| 1/23/1919 | Govindagraj (Ram Ganesh Gadkari), great Marathi drama writer, comedy writer and poet, passed away. |
| 4/2/1970 | Privy purses and special privileges of former Indian rulers abolished. |
| 6/18/1993 | Sunil Mittal, businessman, denies getting any money from Harshad Mehta. |
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