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Historical Event on 8/20/1997
Lata Mangeshkar receives the Fifth Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award from the President.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/17/1948 | Gorkha Rifles Battalion Group (INDBATT) unit was re-designated as the 5th Battalion the 8th Gorkha Rifles (the Sirmoor Rifles). |
| 10/13/1877 | Bhulabhai Desai, politician, was born. |
| 6/19/1966 | Shiv Sena was established. |
| 7/21/1999 | The Janata Dal splits under Deve Gowda and Sharad Yadav. The latter group to support NDA. |
| 9/4/1825 | Dadabhai Naoroji, first Indian in British parliament and merchant, was born at Navsari, Gujarat. He coined the word 'Swaraj'. |
| 2/17/1994 | Bihar leader Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav and Mizoram's Dr. C. Silvera inducted into Union Cabinet. |
| 12/25/1995 | First major multi-organ transplant in the country performed in Apollo Hospital in Madras. |
| 9/20/1993 | Narsimha Rao, Prime Minister, arrives in Teheran on a three-day visit. |
| 1/27/1999 | P. Krishnamurthy, former Indian wicketkeeper, died in Hyderabad following a cardiac arrest. |
| 5/25/1899 | Nazrul Islam, revolutionary and Bengali poet, was born in Churulia village of Burdwan district. |
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