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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
6/20/1993Guru Angad, Sikh Guru, was born.
4/15/1947Issues with Jinnah a joint appeal for communal peace.
8/15/1990India successfully test fires 'Akash', an advanced medium range surface to air missile.
6/1/1998The Prasar Bharati Bill is introduced in the Lok Sabha to revive the Prasar Bharati Act, 1990.
3/24/1944Manmohan Singh, famous economist and Finance Minister of India, was born.
11/1/1945Narendra Dabholkar, blind faith eradicator (Andhashradhha Nirmulak), was born.
1/21/2000The Samata Party National Executive elects Mrs. Jaya Jaitley as its president.
5/26/1906Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"".
9/4/1929N. Hanumantha Rao, cricket test umpire for 9 tests from 1978-84, was born in Karnataka.
10/10/1952US mediator Frank Graham told the U.N. Security Council that there was a possibility of war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir.