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Historical Event on 6/20/1995

B.R. Verma was made pro-tem Speaker by Governor by invoking Article 180 (1).

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/24/2000Delhi High Court admitted the appeal of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao against the lower court judgement in the JMM MPs' bribery case.
11/14/1993Former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, who quit JD, joins BJP.
7/29/1988Syed Modi, 28-year national badminton champion, was shot dead at K. D. Singh Stadium in Lucknow.
12/31/1996Gold import policy liberalised.
5/29/1987Chaudhary Charan Singh, former Prime Minister, leader of farmers and freedom fighter, passed away at the age of 85 yrs.
5/29/1987Saint Eknath, bhagwatbhakt, passed away.
11/29/1988Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support.
8/13/1993All the TDP MLAs suspended from Andhra Pradesh Assembly.
12/11/1843Robert Koch, famous French scientist, was born in Clausthal village, Germany.
9/15/1997Prasar Bharati Act comes into force seeking to free Doordarshan and Akashvani from government control.