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Historical Event on 3/20/1952
Anand Armitraj, great Indian tennis player (Brother of Vijay), was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/20/1911 | Sri Ram Sharma Acharya, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, was born at Auvalkhera, Agra. |
| 10/30/1883 | Swami Dayanand Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj, died in Ajmer. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 9/18/1879 | Welthy Housinger Fisher, an American adult educationist in India, was born. |
| 12/10/1993 | The residence of Mahatma Phule was declared a national monument. |
| 6/30/2000 | The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council adopts a resolution seeking separation from J&K. |
| 9/23/1862 | Sriniwas Shastri, great patriot and veteran politician, was born. |
| 9/15/1926 | Vande Mataram', a lengthy feature film produced by Vande Mataram Film Co, Bombay, was prohibited on September 15 by the Censor Board on the grounds that it was an underlying attack on the prestige of University Education in India. The film, however, was cleared on December 7 after deleting the objectionable scenes. |
| 3/9/1974 | Guru Amudan Sharma, famous Manipuri dance master, passed away. |
| 7/13/1998 | India and Germany sign an agreement on promoting and protecting investment in Bonn. |
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