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Historical Event on 4/20/2000

A full bench of the Madras High Court quashes the Tamil Nadu Government order making Tamil (or mother tongue) as the compulsory medium of instruction in all schools in the State up to Standard V.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/13/1999Punjab Police men, Railways women emerged Federation Cup basketball champions in Jalandhar.
7/27/19987 Hindus are gunned down in two Doda villages of Jammu and Kashmir.
6/19/2000Salgocar wins the Pondicherry Millennium All India Football tournament in Pondicherry.
1/23/1915Kamal Nayan Bajaj, famous industrialist, was born.
2/12/1742Nana Phadnavis, one of the important members of Peshwa kingdom and the Maratha master-diplomat, was born.
2/14/1989Supreme Court orders Union Carbide Coporation of USA and Union Carbide India Limited to pay $470 millions (about Rs. 710 crores) in full and final settlement of all claims out of the Bhopal gas Disaster Litigation tragedy of 1985.
2/3/1986Pope John Paul II meets Mother Teresa at Calcutta.
8/29/1947A conference of the Governor General and the two PMs of India and Pakistan with their military commanders to stop communal riots in the Punjab.
7/1/1952Olympic Games open at Helsinki.
10/14/199210 Indians sentenced to six years in jail in the UAE on account of staging a play in Sharjah.