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Historical Event on 12/20/1990
India and Pakistan agree not to attack each other's nuclear installations.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/18/1993 | Congress (I) secures absolute majority in Nagaland and emerges as the single largest party in Meghalaya. |
| 9/9/1923 | First magazine 'Kiran' was published by Ravikiran Mandal. |
| 2/19/1997 | Massive blowout in ONGC oil field at Devarapally, A.P. |
| 11/3/1933 | Amartya Kumar Sen, economist, was born at Santiniketan (Bangal). |
| 8/15/1960 | Maharashtra State Sahkari Grihvitta Corporation was established. |
| 8/1/1952 | Yajurvindra Singh Jaswant Singh, cricketer (Indian batsman four Tests 1977-79), was born in Rajkot. |
| 8/1/1952 | Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2). |
| 8/25/1994 | Ramdas Nayak, President of BJP Mumbai and former MLA was assassinated at Chembur, Mumbai. He was 52. |
| 3/16/1999 | Amarjeet Kaypee of Haryana, during an innings of 148 against Madhya Pradesh in the super-league match at Rajnandgaon, overtook Ashok Malhotra's 7,274 runs and became the highest run-getter in Ranji Trophy. |
| 6/29/1864 | Dr. Asutosh Mukherjee, great judge, educationist and lawyer of Bengal, was born at Calcutta. |
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