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Historical Event on 1/20/1994
Chinese film 'Farewell, My Concubine' and Adoor Gopalakrishnan's 'Vidheyan' adjudged best Foreign and Indian films in the 25th International Film Festival at Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/7/1995 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2C), third indigenous satellite in the INSAT-2 series, launched. This has additional capabilities such as mobile satellite service, business communication and television outreach beyond Indian boundaries. This is still in service. It was launched by Ariane launch vehicle at French Guyana. |
| 2/28/1884 | Veer Surendra Sai, freedom fighter and revolutionary, passed away. |
| 12/15/1912 | Aspy Merwan, engineer and who became the Air Marchal of India, was born. |
| 11/7/1858 | Bipinchandra Ramchandra Pal, powerful revolutionary and journalist, was born in a place called Silhat (now in Bangladesh). He was amoung the trio which was known as ""Lal - Bal - Pal"" during the freedom struggle. He started as newspaper called ""Swaraj"" for the Indians in England. He also edited several other newspapers like ""Tribune"", ""New India"", ""Vande Mataram"", ""Swaraj"", ""Hindu Review"", ""Democra |
| 7/30/1991 | Sabi Fernandes, senior photographer of Indian Express Newspaper Group, died. |
| 5/21/1994 | JKLF leader Mohammed Yasim Malik agrees to eschew violence provided the Centre guarantees a dialogue without pre-conditions. |
| 2/5/1922 | Gandhiji, following Chauri Chaura (U.P.) tragedy in which 22 police constables and one sub-inspector were burnt to death by a mob, fasts for five days and abandons plan of satyagraha movement. |
| 2/27/1803 | Great fire in Bombay. |
| 2/2/1996 | Gold price zooms to all-time record high of Rs. 5600 per 10 grams. |
| 2/14/1901 | King Edward VII open's his first parliament. |
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