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Historical Event on 6/20/1993

Harshad Mehta's senior counsel Ram Jethmalani asks JPC to summon the PM and allow cross-examination.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/12/1993Police firing at 15 places in Bombay; four foreign militants arrested.
2/24/2000The Subrahmanyam Committee report tabled in the Lok Sabha. The panel concluded that the Pakistan intrusion in Kargil took the Indian security establishment by surprise.
4/1/1944Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India.
7/25/1958Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, inaugurated.
3/1/1978Justice Y. Y. Chandrachud is sworn in as the Chief Justice of India.
11/20/1999World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy.
5/12/1998Yeltsin feels let down by the Indian nuclear tests but says that Indo-Russian ties will not be hit.
3/28/1914Komagata Maru sailed from Hong Kong to Vancouver with 351 Sikhs and 21 Punjabi Muslim youths under the captaincy of Sardar Gurjeet Singh as a part of 'Ghadar' Movement.
7/9/1994Surendranath, Governor of Punjab, died.
12/5/1950Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India.