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Historical Event on 4/20/1989
President's rule imposed in Karnataka.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/20/1985 | Bhawani Prasad Mishra, progressive Hindi poet, passed away. His most famous poem is ""Main Geet Bechtaa Hun"". |
| 11/22/1873 | Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), was born. |
| 10/2/1951 | Dr. Shyamprasad Mukharjee established Bhartiya JanSangh Party. |
| 1/1/1949 | A ceasefire eventually came into force. Under UN supervision, a negotiated Cease Fire Line was drawn up on an actual holding basis pending future settlements. This meandering, and at places militarily illogical line, ran some 700 kilometres from Chhamb in the South to a map reference point NJ 9842 in Ladakh in the North. The fighting was to continue for 15 months, with heavy RIAF involvement throughout, but despite being continuously on an operational footing throughout this period, the re-organisation and modernisation of the service continued unabated. |
| 10/1/1990 | Supreme Court stays implementation of Mandal Commission recommendations. |
| 12/24/1988 | Jaynendra Kumar, famous Hindi novelist, died. |
| 9/11/1995 | PM Narsimha Rao inaugurated the State Panchayat minister's meet for discussing panchayat election, devolution of administrative and financial power to the local bodies. |
| 7/27/1927 | Krishna Baldev Vaid, famous story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 8/14/1987 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1890-1988), Frontier Gandhi. He is the first non-Indian to receive this honour. |
| 5/24/1992 | D. R. Bhagwat, veteran journalist, passed away. |
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