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Historical Event on 11/20/1947
Parliament gives Indian government censorship powers over press at New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/10/1985 | 59 were killed and 150 wounded in Sikh attacks. |
| 5/13/1962 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963) retired from the post of first President. |
| 12/11/1999 | Gopalakrishna Gandhi, former High Commissioner to South Africa, is conferred the honorary doctorate by the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa. |
| 5/26/2000 | Prabhakar G. Surur (93) died in Mumbai. |
| 8/1/1997 | Viswanathan Anand wins the Credit Suisse Masters chess tournament in Beil. |
| 1/19/2000 | M.A. Chidambaram (81), leading industrialist and chairman of the MAC Group, died in Chennai. |
| 9/30/1922 | Bakhshish Singh Nijjar, great historian and author, was born at Domeli village (Punjab). |
| 11/10/1990 | Two Burmese youth hijack a Thai Airlines Airbus with 221 passengers on board to Calcutta. |
| 2/7/2000 | Kamaluddin Ahmed, former APCC(I) president and four times Congress MP, joins the BJP. |
| 3/21/1957 | India's national calender came into force. |
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