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Historical Event on 12/19/2000

The Government suffers an embarrassing defeat with the Rajya Sabha adopting a motion recording its ""disagreement'' with the Prime Minister for defending three of his Cabinet colleagues charged in the Babri Masjid demolition case.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/28/1925Kasturbhai Lalbhai Shrenik, great industrialist, was born at Ahmedabad.
2/1/1986Pope John Paul II arrives in New Delhi for a 10-day visit.
2/1/1986Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal arrived at Cochin as Viceroy of India.
3/28/1941Netaji Subhashchandra Bose reached Berlin after his secret underground journey from Calcutta.
3/8/1963Gursharan Singh Narainsingh, cricketer (Indian batsman played one Test 1989-90), was born in Amritsar.
1/23/1960Laxmi Narayan Garde, famous journalist related to ""Venkateshwar Samachar"", ""Bangawasi"", ""Bharat Mitra"" and ""Navjeevan"" newspapers, passed away.
12/1/1989National Front decides to form a government with outside support from the BJP and the Left Parties.
7/12/1994Vasant (V. P. Sathe), film critic, journalist, publisher and author, passed away.
8/29/1956India gets $ 360 million loan as food aid.
10/30/1996ITC $100 million scam, the country's biggest ever FERA violation case, was unearthed by the Enforcement Directorate.