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Historical Event on 6/20/1948
Lord Mountbatten resigns as the Governor General of Indian Union.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/2/2000 | The Government decides to appoint former Chief Justice of India M.N. Venkatachaliah as the Chairman of the National Commission to review the Constitution. |
| 1/1/1985 | Doordarshan starts Malayalam telecast from Trivandrum. |
| 4/16/2000 | India wins the second leg of the pre-olympic hockey tournament at Perth. |
| 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 |
| 2/13/1968 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee elected President of the All India Jan Sangha. |
| 12/12/1959 | Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President, came to India. |
| 1/12/1757 | Captain Eyre Coote from the Portuguese was captured in Bandel. |
| 8/1/2000 | Lt. Gen. Padmanabhan to be new Army chief replacing Gen. V. P. Malik. |
| 9/19/1997 | India wins the Sahara Cup by winning the third match too. |
| 1/30/1997 | Mahatma Gandhi's ashes immersed in Sangam. |
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