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Historical Event on 10/20/1990

Kona Prabhakar Rao, former Governor of Maharashtra, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/21/1997Sonic Multani bags National snooker title in Mumbai.
5/25/1979Commercial Unity Day started.
1/1/1932Publication of Marathi Newspaper 'Sakal' started.
3/3/1707Shehejade Muajjam declared himself as the successor of Aurangzeb and renamed himself Bahadurshah First.
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
8/14/199315 bus passengers massacred in J&K.
1/16/1945Kabir Bedi, famous Hindi and foreign actor (Thief of Baghdad, Terminal Entry), was born.
7/23/1903Chandra Shekhar Azad was born Today in 1903
4/10/1880C.Y. Chintamani, renowned journalist, was born.
9/19/2000Karnam Malleswari adds a glorious chapter to Indian sports history at the Sydney International Convention Centre by becoming the first woman to gain an Olympic medal.