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Historical Event on 3/20/1993

Kondapally Seetaramaiah, founder of the Peoples War Group of Naxalities in Andhra Pradesh, arrested.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/3/1885Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed govt).
2/25/1998Tendulkar's first first-class 204* for Mumbai vs Australia.
5/21/1835Biharilal Chakravorty, Bengali poet, was born.
3/17/1957New Central Cabinet under J. L. Nehru sworn in.
8/26/1984An Indian Airlines Boeing with 68 passengers and a crew of six hijacked to Lahore. The 12 Sikh hijackers then surrendered to the authorities in the U.A.E and released all the passengers.
12/20/1931Leela Nag (Leela Roy), freedom fighter and editor of Jayshri, was arrested in Bengal for her association with ""Depali Sangh"" who supported Chatgang Ammunition Plot against the Bengal Government.
8/22/1933Inhabitants of Partabgarh face starvation as Opium was now outlawed. They had been living from the sale of opium for the past 800 years.
6/4/1953University of Cambridge confers honorary Doctorate of Laws on J. L. Nehru.
1/29/1781First Newspaper, J.A.Hickey's Bengal Gazette - January 29, 1781.
7/5/1946Ram Vilas Jamun Paswan was born in Shaharbanni, Distt. Khagaria (Bihar).