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Historical Event on 4/20/2000

A full bench of the Madras High Court quashes the Tamil Nadu Government order making Tamil (or mother tongue) as the compulsory medium of instruction in all schools in the State up to Standard V.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/7/2000A five-member ULFA group guns down 26 non-Assamese people, mostly Hindi and Bengali-speaking, at Sonpura near Arunachal Pradesh Border in Upper Assam.
9/16/2000Aparna Popat loses to Kelly Morgan in the first round of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics.
11/24/1919Gandhiji presides over All-India Khilafat conference at Delhi.
2/14/2000The Supreme Court stays the Karnataka High Court judgment quashing the State Government's Ashraya scheme for providing plots to the poor.
6/24/1996Nanchil K. Manoharan, former DMK Finance Minister, expelled from the party.
7/28/1946Sister Alphonsa, good teacher and social worker, died at Bharananganam.
6/18/1658Aurangzeb managed to capture the Agra Fort and later arrested his father Emperor Shahjahan.
4/23/1930Riots break out in Peshawar; 20 Indians shot down after killing of three Britishers.
11/5/1928R. V. S. Perishastri, former Chief Election Commissioner of India, was born.
11/10/1938Mustafa Kemal Ataturk passed away at Istanbul.