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Historical Event on 8/20/1991

Indian Oil Executive Director K. Doraiswamy released after 52 days of being in the custody of Kashmir ultras.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/18/1948Nearly 500 people were drowned when the ferry steamer Narayan River capsized and sank in the Ganga near Patna.
4/29/1979Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter, passed away in New Delhi at the age of 93.
12/28/1977Sumitranandan Pant, famous Hindi poet and literaeur, died.
5/23/1903Gemini Roy, famous Painter, joined Government School of Arts and Crafts at Calcutta.
4/18/1917Gandhi saw one of his testing grounds of Satyagraha in Champaran. He defied section 144 of Criminal Act.
9/16/1955Leopold C. M. S. Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), died at the age of 81.
12/26/1985Rajiv Gandhi and Pakistan President Zia-ul-Haq meet in Delhi and agree not to attack nuclear plants in each other's country.
4/2/1994Ravi Naik sworn in CM.
3/17/1995Congress-I in Arunachal Pradesh wins two-third majority.
7/18/1946U.K. Parliament approves British Cabinet mission report on India but Churchill says that the mission went too far in offering India independence outside of the Commonwealth.