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Historical Event on 12/13/2000

The Lok Sabha begins the Ayodhya-Babri Masjid debate.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/20/1982Mira Behn (90), disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, passed away.
6/23/2000Indian journalist Palagummi Sainath gets Amnesty International Global award for human rights journalism..
6/5/1997Brahmapuram diesel power project, KSEB's first thermal power project, situated 25 km from Kochi, Kerala commissioned.
9/3/1994The government decides to disinvest government holding in 21 Public Sector Units including ITI, IOC and ITDC.
9/30/1999Hindi writer Prof. Prem Shankar and Tamil scholar Ashokamitran selected for K.K. Birla Foundation Fellowships in comparative Indian literature.
4/20/1965First Indian team led by M. S. Kohli ascends the Everest.
3/15/1941Gorkha Rifles Battalion Group (INDBATT) unit was raised as the 4th Battalion, the 2nd King Edward VII's own Gorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) by Lt Col O'de T Lovett at Deharadun.
3/3/1990JD-BJP coalition government in Gujarat, Chimanbhai Patel to become CM; Sharad Pawar in Maharashtra and Bhairon Singh Shekhewat of BJP to head the BJP-JD coalition government in Rajasthan.
7/23/1903Chandra Shekhar Azad was born Today in 1903
7/28/1994Sudhakarrao Naik, G. Ramanujam and O. N. Srivastava appointed Governors.