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Historical Event on 11/20/1969

The Union Home Ministry decides to reserve posts for SC\STs in the public sector undertakings.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/15/1937Jayshankar Prasad, famous Hindi writer, died. His works include the epic (mahakavya) ""Kamayanee"" and plays ""Chandra Gupt"" and ""Ska
11/15/1937Akbar's Vajir-E-Ajam 'Bairam Khan' was assassinated at Patan, Gujarat by an Afghan assassin Mubarak Khan Lohani ( whose father was slain by Bairam Khan) in the battle of Machiwara.
7/25/1958Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, inaugurated.
2/15/1967Fourth General Election of Lok Sabha begins.
1/10/199627th International Film Festival of India begins in New Delhi.
6/18/1993Advani takes over as party President.
6/22/1935Vaman Viswanath Kumar, cricketer (useful Madras leggie who only played 2 Tests), was born in Madras.
9/10/1920Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal.
3/17/1920Mujiburr Rahman, the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh, was born in Tungipara now in Bangladesh.
6/7/1979Bhaskara-I, first experimental satellite for Earth resources/meteorology remote sensing and the Second Satellite of India, launched. This satellite carried TV and microwave cameras. It was launched by Russian launch vehicle 'Intercosmos'.