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Historical Event on 1/20/1995
Supreme Court orders closure of 84 industries in and around Taj Mahal in UP due to pollution.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/9/1710 | Reynier de Klerk, governor-general of Dutch-Indies, baptized. |
| 3/8/1930 | Mahatma Gandhi started civil disobedience movement continues in India. |
| 12/11/1881 | Subramania Bharati was born at Ettaiyapuram. |
| 1/25/1983 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Acharya Vinobha Bhave (Posthumous) (1895-1982). |
| 4/29/1960 | Pandit Balkrishna Sarma ''Navin'', famous Hindi poet of modern era, passed away. |
| 12/27/1996 | Mahashweta Devi, Bengali litterateur, win the Gyanpith Award. |
| 8/2/1977 | Jaswinder ""Jas"" Jutla, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Glasgow, Scotland. |
| 12/29/1885 | A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay. |
| 8/25/1888 | Allama Mashriqi, Muslim leader, was born. |
| 3/9/1998 | Vishwanathan Anand,Chess legend, wins the Super Grand Master Title. |
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