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Historical Event on 12/19/2000
The Government suffers an embarrassing defeat with the Rajya Sabha adopting a motion recording its ""disagreement'' with the Prime Minister for defending three of his Cabinet colleagues charged in the Babri Masjid demolition case.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/6/1920 | Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon. |
| 7/3/1997 | Tamil actor Sivaji Ganesan gets 1996 Dada Saheb Phalke award for outstanding contribution to Indian cinema. |
| 5/27/1991 | Justice J.S. Verma of the Supreme Court appointed to probe into Rajiv Gandhi murder case. |
| 4/9/1993 | Lt. Gen. B.C. Joshi to be the next army chief. |
| 12/20/1942 | Gangu Bai, freedom fighter from Kolhapur, died at Hinlang Jail because of police beating. |
| 4/22/1994 | Chabbildas Mehta sworn in as Gujarat CM. |
| 6/22/1991 | M. Karunanidhi, DMK President, resigned from the Assembly. |
| 1/23/1814 | Sir Alexander Canningham, Indian Archeologist, was born. |
| 10/14/1994 | Setu Madhavrao Pagdi, researcher and historian, died. |
| 2/14/1970 | Supreme Court holds nationalization of banks illegal. Presidential ordinance revalidates nationalization. |
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