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Historical Event on 9/20/1932
Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" (hunger strike) in Poona prison to secure abolition of separate electorates for Harijans and untouchables.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/11/1998 | V. M. Devaraj (78), DMK leader and former MLA, passed away after a brief illness. He represented Vellore in 1980, 1984 and 1989. He was a close associate of the DMK founder, C. N. Annadurai. |
| 1/10/1964 | Battles between Muslims & Hindus in Calcutta. |
| 10/24/1975 | Bounded labour system was abolished by Ordinance |
| 2/22/1982 | South-South Conference opens in New Delhi. |
| 3/25/1996 | CBI gives a clean chit to PM Rao in the St. Kitts case. |
| 6/18/1978 | The Karakoram Highway, linking Gilgit in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir with Sinkiang in China, is opened. |
| 10/5/1991 | Vinayakrao Devrukhkar, famous playwright, novelist and editor of a daily newspaper 'Sandhya', died. |
| 12/29/1984 | Rajiv Gandhi claims for Indian Prime Minister post after his landslide majority in 8th General Elections. |
| 5/16/1994 | Phani Mujumdar, veteran film producer and director, passed away. |
| 3/16/1997 | The first batch of three Russian-made Sukhoi-30 combat aircraft reaches India. |
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