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Historical Event on 5/20/1992

Jayalalitha sacks R. M. Veerappan from her cabinet in Tamil Nadu.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/30/1979Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'.
9/22/1937The last contingent of Indian freedom fighters was send to Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
11/29/1961First cosmonaut of the world, Yuri Gagarin of Russia, came to India.
1/16/1996Supreme Court says trial courts should hold trial of rape cases in camera.
7/8/1996Tamil Nadu Govt. moves SC for fresh directions to Karnataka govt. for release of 15 tmc. ft. of water.
2/19/1949Mass arrests of communists in India.
1/5/1995Jitendra Prasad succeeds N.D. Tiwari as UPCC-I chief.
6/20/1992CPM decides to back Dr. Sharma.
10/28/1996Press Council of India to set up a 5-member committee headed by Chairman P.B. Sawant to inquire into the attack on journalists outside the New Delhi residence of Kanshi Ram.
10/31/1999Efforts to restore rail and telecom links on a war footing.