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Historical Event on 1/20/1995
Supreme Court orders closure of 84 industries in and around Taj Mahal in UP due to pollution.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/22/1971 | Judge Sarv Mittra Sikri became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 25/04/1973. |
| 3/20/1991 | Simultaneous polls in Tamil Nadu. |
| 4/19/1996 | AIDS deleted from the list of contagious diseases in the Railway Act of 1989. |
| 4/10/1997 | Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, announces Rs. 2.5 crore aid to Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Gandhi Institute of Computer Education and Information Technology, Mumbai. |
| 8/13/1951 | Acharya Kishoridas Vajpayee passed away. |
| 11/3/1605 | Salim renamed himself as Jahangir and became the king of Agra. |
| 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 |
| 1/1/1909 | Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricketer (Indian batsman & wicket-keeper 1936-46), was born in Bombay. |
| 10/5/1997 | Leander-Mahesh win China Open ATP Tour doubles event. |
| 1/6/1992 | Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* vs Australia at the SCG. |
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