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Historical Event on 6/20/1897
Ratnakant Barkakti, famous Assamia poet, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/6/1992 | The centre decides to allow TV and Radio time slots for private producers. |
| 7/7/1937 | Jagdish Prasad Goenka, great industrialist, was born in Calcutta. |
| 1/18/1997 | Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme Phase II begins. |
| 2/11/1993 | Centre bans BJP rally in the capital on February 25. |
| 8/7/1871 | Abanindranath Tagore, great modern artist and painter, was born at Jorasanko in Calcutta. |
| 8/15/1999 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, says Agni-2 to be inducted in the defence arsenal. |
| 11/15/1991 | Insurance official Dr. S.L. Khosa freed in Kashmir in exchange for a militant. |
| 4/26/1992 | Gyanapith award winner Prof. V.K.Gokak (82) passes away. |
| 11/29/1953 | Benegal Narsing Rau, foremost Indian Jurist of his time, passed away at Zurich. He performed some very prominent duties towards the nation. He was Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and a judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice at Hague. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
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