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Historical Event on 8/20/1979

Indian premier Charan Singh resigns.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/17/1933Lala Amarnath scores a century (118) in his Test Cricket debut.
12/19/2000The Government suffers an embarrassing defeat with the Rajya Sabha adopting a motion recording its ""disagreement'' with the Prime Minister for defending three of his Cabinet colleagues charged in the Babri Masjid demolition case.
9/9/1997G. K. Moopanar, Tamil Maanila Congress president, and his party colleagues Jayanthi Natarajan, Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation, and Peter Alphonse, resign from Rajya Sabha membership following a petition filed by Shiv Sena member Sanjay Nirupam seeking their disqualification 'for defecting from Congress(I)'.
2/25/1977Second satellite Earth Station established at Dehradun.
7/8/1954Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, inaugurated world's longest Bhakra-Nangal Dam canal at Punjab.
1/31/1983The first floating Dry Dock was launched at Howrah.
3/30/1990Constitution (64th) Amendment Bill to extend President's rule in Punjab collapses in Lok Sabha.
2/25/1993BJP rally in New Delhi foiled.
6/16/1946Cabinet Mission negotiations were discontinued. Viceroy proposed Interim Government.
2/13/1969Subroto Tara Banerjee, cricketer (Indian quickie & Dennis Lillee protegee), was born in Patna.