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Historical Event on 10/20/1969

Punjabrao Agriculture University established.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/19/1848Lokhitwadi started his column 'Shatpatra' in the newspaper named 'Prabhakar'.
9/24/1936It was reported that in the past two weeks over 2 million of India's depressed classes had renounced Hinduism in favor of Christianity.
5/18/1955Hindu Marriage Act is amended.
11/18/1727Maharaja Jai Singh-II of Amber laid the stone of Jaipur City. Vidyadhar Chakravarty of Bengal was the architect of the first planned city in India.
3/27/1977N. Sanjeeva Reddy elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
11/1/1991J.N. Dixit appointed the next Foreign Secretary.
7/29/1987India and Sri Lanka sign peace accord at Colombo in a bid to end the 5-year old ethnic trouble. This stance taken thereafter by the LTTE added several dimensions to the scenario. It was a multi-purpose role that the Navy has been required to play.
6/15/1993PM Narasimha Rao visits Oman; India and Oman decide to give each other MFN status.
8/11/1999Ramnath Parkar, former Indian opening batsman, died in Mumbai.
8/29/1976Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam of Bengal, great revolutionary, died on his visit to Dhaka in Bangladesh.