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Historical Event on 8/20/1933
Mahatma Gandhi is rushed to the hospital on the fourth day of his latest fast.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/18/1996 | Kenya's first full One Day International Cricket match at Cricket World Cup vs India. Tendulkar scored 127* and India won over Kenya. |
| 3/26/1992 | Rs. 245 crore relief in customs, excise duties announced. |
| 9/20/1993 | First developmental launch of PSLV and Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1E) carried remote sensing payloads. Could not be placed in orbit. |
| 1/14/1948 | First issue of Marathi daily newspaper 'Loksatta' was published. |
| 4/11/1999 | The DRDO has successfully flight tested AGNI-11 with a range of 2000 km, using solid propellant rocket motors in both stages and rail mobile launcher system from its new launch complex in the Orissa Coast. With this launch the country has reached the point of operationalisation of AGNI-11 as a weapon system. (1-1-2000). |
| 1/3/1836 | Munshi Newal Kishore, son of Jamuna Prasad Bhargava--a zamindar of Aligarh-- and a great erudite scholar, educationist, nationalist, social worker and a pioneer industrialist, was born. He was the founder of Navalkishore Press, Lucknow (1858), which published 2612 books that elaborated Hindi literature. He was the Publisher of Awadhi Newspaper in Asia. |
| 2/19/1915 | Gopal Krishna Gokhale, social reformer, political leader and freedom fighter, passed away. |
| 12/8/1857 | Mohsini from Delhi was hanged in jail. |
| 1/3/1880 | Publication of 'Illustrated Weekly of India' started. |
| 10/24/1890 | Shishirkumar Mitra, Physics expert, was born in Calcutta. |
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