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Historical Event on 7/20/1986
India withdraws from Edinburgh Commonwealth Games.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/16/1946 | Alladiya Khan, famous singer of Kolhapur Darbar, passed away. |
| 11/9/1990 | JD expels Gujarat CM Chimanbhai Patel and UP CM Mulayam Singh Yadav from Legislative wings and primary membership of the party. |
| 2/1/1969 | Pinaki Chatterji and George Albert Duke on a two-man rowing expedition to the Andamans set out from Calcutta. |
| 11/7/1862 | Bahadurshah Jafar -II died at Rangoon in British prision. |
| 11/7/1862 | Mahmud Gawan was appointed as Prime Minister, an office which he held till his execution. |
| 12/21/1881 | Pundit Sunder Lal Sharma, freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Rajim, M.P. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 1/24/1996 | H.K.L. Bhagat, senior Congress politician and former minister, arrested in connection with a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case. |
| 2/19/1670 | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the great Maratha, was born. |
| 10/14/1980 | S. N. Banerjee, cricketer--one Test for India and 249 runs 10th wkt stand on tour, died. |
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