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Historical Event on 6/20/1873

Young Men Christian Association of India was established in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/20/1873Saint Kabir was born.
8/22/1922Alluri Seetaram Raju inspired and organised the tribals to wage a war against the British. Raju's army raided Chintapalli police station and there was regular warfare between him and the British forces.
6/4/1972First Environment Day.
8/4/1845Pherozeshah Mehta, who published the first Hindi newspaper and one of the founders of Indian National Congress, was born in Bombay.
1/21/1882Vaman Malhar Joshi, Marathi novelist, was born.
8/20/1955Jawaharlal Nehru breaks off relations with the Portuguese after the invasion of Goa by Indian nationalists.
4/2/1954Nehru calls for a halt to the build up of nuclear weapons.
5/7/1912Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati novelist and story writer, was born.
8/15/1947India gains independence from the British rule and Pakistan emerges as a separate Islamic nation. Around 600,000 die in clashes during the subsequent population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries.
1/29/1939Ramkrishna Mission Sanskritik Sansthan (Institute of Culture) was established.