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Historical Event on 11/20/1990
Union Government asks Supreme Court to repeal the $470 million Bhopal Gas settlement order.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/13/1984 | India beat Pak by 58 runs to win the first Cricket Asia Cup in Sharjah. |
| 6/20/1994 | Anti-Pakistan slogans rent the air in Jammu & Kashmir against the killing of Quazi Nissar Ahmed, Mirwaiz of South Kashmir and a famous religious Kashmiri leader who was gunned down by Pak-aided terrorists. |
| 4/1/1954 | French settlements in India pass under Indian control. |
| 9/3/1915 | Following the monsoon, a good harvest is expected, except in Gujarat, in northern Rajputana and Punjab where isolated falls were recorded in Delhi. |
| 11/27/1881 | Kashi Prasad Jayaswal, great lawyer, philosopher and eminent historian, was born at Mirzapur, UP. |
| 8/1/1947 | Partition of India into India and Pakistan. Power transferred. Lord Mountbatten becomes Governor General of India and Muhammed Ali Jinnah, Governor General of Pakistan. |
| 10/13/1967 | Vasant Prabhu, famous music director, died. |
| 5/31/1921 | Suresh Hariprasad Joshi, modern Gujarati poet, story writer and critic, was born. |
| 12/28/1995 | Third Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1C), carring advanced remote sensing cameras was launched by Russian Molniya launch vehicle. It is still in service. |
| 12/26/1985 | Rajiv Gandhi and Pakistan President Zia-ul-Haq meet in Delhi and agree not to attack nuclear plants in each other's country. |
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