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Historical Event on 12/20/1999
The Government rejects underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's conditional offer to surrender.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/22/1992 | Government raises Suzuki share in Maruti to 50 per cent making it the first public sector company to go private. |
| 10/23/1934 | Gandhi resigns as leader of the All India Congress. |
| 10/28/1996 | Press Council of India to set up a 5-member committee headed by Chairman P.B. Sawant to inquire into the attack on journalists outside the New Delhi residence of Kanshi Ram. |
| 11/9/1980 | P. C. Joshi, former General Secretary of Indian Communist Party, passed away. |
| 3/24/1902 | Anusilan Samiti, a revolutionary organisation, was formed in Bengal. |
| 12/10/1761 | Maharani Tarabai of Pune died at Satara.(9 or 10). |
| 1/28/1894 | Anandibai Prabhakar Jayawant, famous Hindi writer, was born at Baroda. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 6/26/1954 | Nehru, Chou En-lai pledge good-neighbor policy at New Delhi. |
| 2/28/1927 | Krishan Kant, vice President of India and former Young Turk, was born at Kot Mohd. Khan, district Amritsar, Punjab. |
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