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Historical Event on 2/20/1846
Duleep Singh was recognised as the ruler. British captured Lahore.
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| 5/27/1996 | A. B. Vajpayee, PM, seeks vote of confidence in his 12-day old govt. |
| 5/18/1926 | Naranjan Bhagat, famous Gujrathi poet, was born. |
| 10/12/1935 | Shivraj Vishwanath Patil, former Speaker of Lok Sabha, was born |
| 7/31/1985 | Lalit Maken, Congress (I) M.P, his wife and a visitor at their residence in Delhi were shot down by terrorists. |
| 2/9/1898 | The Rower of Persia', a short film produced at Calcutta was released on February 9 at Star Theatre, Calcutta. |
| 11/22/1916 | Shanti Ghosh, great revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Calcutta. She was one of the accused in famous Chargaon ammunition plot and assassination of General Lemen, Inspector General of Dhaka. |
| 2/6/1950 | N. R. Pillai was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 13-05-1953. |
| 5/21/1966 | General Election (11th) of India ends. |
| 1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
| 5/25/1606 | Guru Arjun Dev, spiritual leader of Sikhs and Hindus, was massacred at the instruction of Emperor Jahangir. |
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