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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 |
| 5/22/1996 | United Front prime ministerial candidate H.D. Deve Gowda unanimously elected leader of the Front's parliamentary party. |
| 4/20/1989 | Launching of IRBM `Agni' fails. |
| 7/30/1995 | Notification issued for the constitution of Jharkhand Autonomous District Council. |
| 1/18/1959 | Miss Meera Behn, follower of Gandhi, left India for good. |
| 10/27/1998 | L. P. Singh, ICS, former Governor of five north eastern states, died in New Delhi. He was 86. |
| 9/24/1629 | Jacques Specx appointed Governor General of Dutch-Indies. |
| 1/11/1858 | Shridhar Pathak, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
| 6/3/1901 | Mahakavi G. Sankara Kurup, Malayalam poet, was born. He was the first winner of the conveted Gyaanpeeth Award in 1965 for his poems "Odakkuzhal" in Malayalam. |
| 6/28/1857 | Nana Sahib proclaimed himself as the Peshwa and called for the total extermination of the British power of India at Bithoor. |
| 8/5/1992 | Achyutrao Patwardhan, leader of 'Quit India Movement', died at Varanasi at the age of 86. |
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