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Historical Event on 8/20/1944
Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee, was born in Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/22/1993 | Ordinance to amend Consumer Act was issued; Government doctors and hospitals were kept out of its ambit. |
| 3/17/1920 | Mujiburr Rahman, the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh, was born in Tungipara now in Bangladesh. |
| 6/23/1990 | Harindranath Chatopadhyay, famous poet, actor and former member of Parliament, passed away. |
| 2/28/1884 | Veer Surendra Sai, freedom fighter and revolutionary, passed away. |
| 4/27/1960 | Presidential orders were issued on the report of the Committee of Parliament on official Languages which includes issues relating to preparation of terminology (Hindi glossaries, Hindia translation of codes and procedural literature, imparting training in Hindi to employees propagation of Hindi, language of bills, language to be used in the Supreme Court and High Court etc). |
| 12/16/1994 | Pratap Singh Rane of Congress (I) takes oath of office. |
| 7/7/1999 | M.L. Jaisimha, former Indian Test cricketer, died in Hyderabad. |
| 2/16/1911 | Bhalchandra Gopal Bapat, newspaper editor and educationalist, was born. |
| 2/16/1911 | Father Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of the Jesuits, 35, and three friends set sail from Lisbon, Portugal for Goa. They became the first Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India. |
| 5/10/1910 | Robert Koch, nobel laureate, died of an heart attack. |
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