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Historical Event on 10/20/1991
Manohar Phalke, famous union leader and MLA, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/17/1997 | Supreme Court bans all non-forest activities including running of saw mills and mining in forest areas. |
| 11/6/1952 | Dipal Jayant Tilak, journalist and editor, was born. |
| 1/11/1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Prime Minister (1964-66), passed away at Tashkent, U.S.S.R. at 1:32, age 61. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously. |
| 8/6/1925 | Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad. |
| 10/26/1961 | Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October. |
| 1/19/1997 | Air India triumphs in the National Women's Cricket championship in Calcutta. |
| 6/18/1995 | The latest deaths in northern India's hottest weather this century bring the death toll to 525 as temperatures hit 113¦F (45¦C) in New Delhi. |
| 2/25/1897 | Dr. Amarnath Jha, educationist, was born. |
| 5/11/1885 | Krishnamohan Bandopadhyay, leader, essay writer and journalist of Bengal, passed away. |
| 2/10/1949 | Pune University' established. |
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