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Historical Event on 2/20/1827
Mahatma Jyotirao Govindrao Phule, great social worker and founder of `Satyashodhak Samrajya', was born in Pune.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/15/1991 | General Election (10th) of India ends. In this election Indian National Congress won. |
| 10/2/1957 | All India Scheduled Caste Federation formally dissolved and a new political party 'Republican Party of India' was formed. |
| 7/16/1999 | 17 are killed and over 200 injured when the Delhi bound GT Express collides with derailed wagons of a goods train near Mathura. |
| 6/1/1997 | Ghulam Rasool Wani, National Conference leader, kidnapped and shot dead by militants at Kaskot in Doda district, Jammu. |
| 2/14/1959 | Nehru tells the International Conference on Planned Parenthood that Indian family planning efforts have not stopped population growth. |
| 1/18/1994 | India hires the law firm McAuliffe, Kelly and Rafaelli for lobbying in Washington. |
| 5/23/1924 | Venkatraman Narayan Swamy, cricketer (one Test v NZ in 1955, DNB, 0-45), was born in Calicut. |
| 3/21/1997 | Foreign currency reserves of RBI stand at $16 billions, which was a record of sorts. |
| 6/3/1924 | Muthuvel Karunanidhi, politician and playwright, was born in Thirukkuvalai (Thanjavur). |
| 10/15/1686 | Aurangzeb attacked and conqured Bijapur and this was the end of the Muslim Adilshahi's era. |
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