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Historical Event on 1/20/1997
Indian Express launches its 18th edition from Belgaum.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/10/1995 | Harishankar Parsai, famous Hindi litterateur, passed away. |
| 7/12/1993 | West Bengal Governor Dr. Nurul Hasan, 72, died. |
| 7/4/1989 | Union Deputy Ministers were promoted to the rank of Ministers of State. |
| 2/7/1997 | Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena supremo, found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to simple imprisonment of one week and a fine of Rs. 2000 by Nagpur bench of Mumbai HC for his statement that ''a judge had demanded a bribe of Rs. 35 lakhs for favouring a litigant''. |
| 5/27/1952 | United Nationalist Party and the Indian Democratic Party combined to form one opposition party - National Democratic Party with Dr. S. P. Mukherjee as leader. |
| 9/16/1955 | Leopold C. M. S. Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), died at the age of 81. |
| 3/26/1992 | Rs. 245 crore relief in customs, excise duties announced. |
| 10/14/1985 | Assam Ganparishad established. |
| 1/8/2000 | The Government reconstitutes the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts and Trust and retains Mrs. Sonia Gandhi as a trustee along with Mr. P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prof. Yashpal and Dr. Abid Hussain. |
| 8/27/1958 | Metric system of weights and measures introduced. |
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