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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 |
| 11/5/1930 | Arjun Singh, leader of Madhya Pradesh, was born. |
| 10/19/1983 | Union Government takes over the management of 13 textile undertakings in Bombay; marathon strike in cotton textile industry ends. |
| 11/6/1951 | Judge M. Patanjali Sastri became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 03/01/1954. |
| 6/18/1918 | A. R. Rajrajvarma, famous poet of Malayalam language, critic and master of grammer, passed away. |
| 1/22/1760 | In the battle at Wandiwash (India), after their victory against the French, the British virtually had no European opponent left in India. |
| 8/10/1988 | Ramakrishna Hegde resigns as CM of Karnataka on moral grounds in connection with phone tapping issue. |
| 3/9/1997 | Bezawada Gopala Reddy, 89, former Union Minister and former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, died. |
| 7/14/1992 | The Lok Sabha passes a bill seeking to confer on the President the powers of the Legislature of J&K. |
| 12/28/1931 | The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him. |
| 2/16/1969 | Mirza Ghalib centenary stamp released. |
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