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Historical Event on 8/20/1974
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed elected President of India with B. D. Jatti as Vice President.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/10/1896 | Jananayak Debeswar Sarmah, freedom fighter, architect and nationalist, was born at Jorhat, Assam. |
| 2/6/1939 | Sayaji Rao Gaekwad III of Baroda, great nationalist and social reformer, passed away. |
| 7/22/1997 | Govt. issues notification saying that Prasar Bharati Act, 1990 would come into force from Sept. 15. |
| 1/1/1994 | Hindu Heritage Endowment, first Hindu international trust, was founded by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami. |
| 11/19/1999 | Indira Gandhi Peace prize is presented to a social worker of Bangladesh Muhammed Yunus. |
| 11/18/1911 | Free primary school education is introduced. |
| 8/10/1927 | Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu, first Indian astronomer, litterateur and Urdu poet, was born at Madras. |
| 8/10/1927 | Ruknud-din Firuz Shah, son of Emperor Iltutmish, was assassinated. |
| 9/24/1936 | It was reported that in the past two weeks over 2 million of India's depressed classes had renounced Hinduism in favor of Christianity. |
| 3/1/1971 | Central Translation Bureau was setup as a subordinate office under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Bureau undertakes translation work of manuals, codes, forms and other non-statutory procedural literature of various ministries, departments, offices of the Central Government and Undertakings, Banks etc. |
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