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Historical Event on 11/20/1998

Dr. Mohammed Yunus, Chairman of the Grameen Bank of Dhaka, is selected for the 1998 Indira Gandhi prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/18/2000K.M. Beenamol breaks P.T. Usha's record in 400m at 51.21 sec in an international meet at Kiev in Ukraine.
6/20/1996Govt. of India declares at Geneva conference on 'Global Ban On Nuclear Testing' that it won't sign the CTBT.
5/15/1993K.M. Cariappa, field marshal and Major General, passed away at the age of 93.
7/23/2000Ram Jethmalani, Union Law Minister, quits the Cabinet after the Prime Minister shows him the door following the outbursts against the Chief Justice of India, Dr. A. S. Anand.
2/3/1925First Electric Train started its journey from Bombay V. T. (presently known as C.S.T.) to Kurla. This train was on the Central Railway, Bombay.
6/18/1995The latest deaths in northern India's hottest weather this century bring the death toll to 525 as temperatures hit 113¦F (45¦C) in New Delhi.
9/13/1997India drubs Maldives in SAFF football final in Kathmandu.
6/23/1810Duncan Dock of Bombay was completed.
4/1/2000India wins four golds in the under-14 Youth chess championship in Teheran.
6/16/1946C. Rajagopalchari became the Governor of West Bengal (1947) in Interim Government.