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Historical Event on 10/20/1998

Security forces unearth 770 kg of RDX and plastic explosives in the Tangmay area of Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/4/1832Darpan', a fortnightly magazine started publishing as a weekly.
12/31/1996Gold import policy liberalised.
12/20/1850Atma Dev, social reformer and religious leader, was born.
4/18/1959India, Pakistan sign one-year pact on Indus River irrigation.
11/30/1995G. Umapati, filmmaker, died.
5/16/1975Sikkim annexed principality and was declared as the 22nd state of Indian Union.
2/16/1997Ramakrishna Hegde launches a new national political party, Lok Shakti.
6/7/1997Mahesh Bhupathi becomes the first Indian to win a Grand Slam title when he and Japan's Rika Hiraki claim the mixed doubles.
10/5/1957Nehru becomes the first recipient of the key of Hiroshima Peace City.
12/23/1912Rash Behari Ghosh and Sachin Sanyal threw a bomb at Viceroy Lord Hardinge II in Delhi. He had come to Delhi on an elephant for the initiation of the new capital. The Viceroy was injured in the bomb blast.