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Historical Event on 2/20/1968
First Edition of 'Amrit Bazar Patrika' weekly was published in Bengali language.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
12/1/1947 | India all out for 58 vs Australia at Gabba. |
8/4/1923 | Nagpur University started working. |
8/11/2000 | Koneru Humpy was crowned the youngest British Ladies chess champion at the end of eleventh and final round in the Smith and Williamson British chess championship in Somerset. |
1/12/1992 | Punjab election set for February 19. |
11/20/1998 | Dr. Mohammed Yunus, Chairman of the Grameen Bank of Dhaka, is selected for the 1998 Indira Gandhi prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development. |
12/12/1976 | Madanlal Dhingra's ashes were brought to India. |
8/9/1942 | The Congress at its Bombay session passed the famous Quit India resolution, calling for mass struggle on non-violent lines on the widest possible scale, under the leadership of Gandhiji. He stressed that ""We shall either free India or die in the attempt; We shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery""; popularly known as ""Do or Die"". But before the Congress could start the movement, the government arrested all the major leaders and the Congress was declared illegal. Spontaneous popular revolts broke out with the battle cry of 'British Quit India'. |
2/2/1993 | Prices of iron and steel hiked. |
6/16/1950 | Mithun Chakravorty, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
4/30/1909 | R. Shankar, politician, journalist and former Chief Minister of Kerala, was born. |
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