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Historical Event on 5/20/1878
Bahameni Sultan Dawood Shah was assassinated.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/6/1925 | Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad. |
| 7/2/1999 | In Jammu and Kashmir, nine people are killed by unidentified militants. |
| 4/30/1977 | Nine Congress-ruled states placed under President's rule. Janata Party formed. |
| 1/19/1990 | Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ""Osho"", Indian free love guru, modern mystic and controversial cult figure, died in Pune at the age of 58 years. He will be remembered as a great orator and for founding of Rajnishpuram in USA. |
| 6/3/1912 | Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej, great industrialist, was born. |
| 2/24/1899 | Maheshchandra Burjorjee Bilimoria, film distributor, was born. |
| 1/1/1986 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Peace Year"". |
| 4/8/1929 | Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw two bombs on the Assembly Hall. |
| 7/7/1901 | J. Watsan Harod started a branch of Gramophone Company at Calcutta. |
| 7/6/1998 | Moshood Abiola, the detained Nigerian politician and presumed winner of the 1993 elections, died in Abuja. |
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