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Historical Event on 8/20/1974

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed elected President of India with B. D. Jatti as Vice President.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/26/1990V. R. P. Menon, an Air Force Engineer, broke the world record in Chandigargh.
10/5/1676East India company got authority from the King of England to mint Indian currencies 'Rupee and Paise' coins in Bombay.
4/8/1759British troops chase French out of Masulipatam, India.
1/1/1991Bhanu Pratap Singh, Karnataka Governor, resigns. Goa governor Khurshid Alam Khan appointed in his place.
10/14/1998Prof. Amartya Sen (Indian Nobel Laureates), the economist-philosopher, awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his contribution to welfare economics.
3/7/1961Govind Ballabh Pant passed away. He had served eight years as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He was bestowed with Bharat Ratna in 1959.
5/21/1927Cargo Transportation service started between Calcutta and Bagdogra.
11/10/1960First Nagpur session of Maharashtra State.
12/20/1978Riots in many Indian cities in protest against Indira Gandhi's imprisonment.
5/19/1951Sukhdev Bihari Mishra of Mishra Brothers, first historian of Hindi litterateur, passed away.