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Historical Event on 12/20/1988

The Constitution (62nd Amendment) Bill for reducing the voting age from 21 to 18 years receives Parliamentary approval.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/9/1999India's Manisha Malhotra won the $10,000 ITF women's circuit tournament at Harrisonburg, Virginia for her maiden tour title.
7/20/1654Portugal was taken over by Britishers.
1/16/2000P. Moses, Indian High Commission Staff member, badly beaten up and abducted by Pakistani intelligence operators in Islamabad.
3/21/1993The 68 km Mangalore-Udupi stretch of the west coast Konkan rail line opened by the PM.
7/14/1636Aurangzeb was appointed as Shahjahan by Viceroy of Deccan.
7/7/1999M.L. Jaisimha, former Indian Test cricketer, died in Hyderabad.
10/16/1905Bengal was partitioned by Lord Curzon on the pretext of it being too big to administer. Instead of dividing it on the basis of non-Bengali areas, the division was on the basis of Hindus and Muslims. Britishers thought that would succeed in increasing Hindu - Muslim tensions. The tremor of partition was felt throughout India and was regarded as an insult and challenge to Indian Nationalism. A movement was launched by the moderates. New method of protests 'Swadeshi and Swaraj' became the slogan of the common man and the whole of India was drawn into the national movement.
8/30/1903Bhagwati Charan Varma was born.
9/19/1965Government extends ultimatum to India to dismantle forts within four days in China.
1/27/1995K.V. Krishna Rao, J&K Governor, gets another term.