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Historical Event on 1/20/1994
Chinese film 'Farewell, My Concubine' and Adoor Gopalakrishnan's 'Vidheyan' adjudged best Foreign and Indian films in the 25th International Film Festival at Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/24/1936 | It was reported that in the past two weeks over 2 million of India's depressed classes had renounced Hinduism in favor of Christianity. |
| 2/24/1996 | S. Korean President Kim Young Sam visits India. |
| 5/5/1998 | Yashwant Sinha and Madan Lal Khurana, Union Ministers, are discharged in the hawala case. |
| 10/21/1997 | RBI de-regulates deposit rates, reduces CRR and Bank Rate (from 10\% to 9) and allows banks to have two sets of Prime Lending Rates. |
| 7/27/1928 | Rameshwar Sahai Saxena, famous writer, lawyer and journalist, was born at Lalitpur, (UP). |
| 11/9/1990 | JD expels Gujarat CM Chimanbhai Patel and UP CM Mulayam Singh Yadav from Legislative wings and primary membership of the party. |
| 9/8/1960 | Feroz Gandhi, a prominent member of the Lok Sabha,died in New Delhi. |
| 9/1/1947 | Indian Standard Time was adopted. |
| 8/3/1994 | The first successful heart transplant operation was performed at the All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, by a team of doctors led by Prof. P. Venugopal (25-2-96). |
| 11/7/1867 | Madam Marie Sklodowska, great scientist, professor and Nobel Prize awardee, was born in Poland. |
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