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Historical Event on 5/20/1878
Bahameni Sultan Dawood Shah was assassinated.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/19/1974 | T. S. Rajamanikkam Pillai, famous Tamil stage artist, died. |
| 7/31/1912 | Allan Octavian, great social reformer, patriot, lawyer, journalist and politician, passed away at the age of 84. |
| 9/19/2000 | India remains committed to a unilateral moratorium on nuclear tests, but we will not allow this stand to stand in the way of our protecting India's supreme natural interest,'' said Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on his return from the US. |
| 6/16/1946 | C. Rajagopalchari became the Governor of West Bengal (1947) in Interim Government. |
| 3/5/1990 | Government announces an interim relief of Rs. 360 crore to 5 lakh victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. |
| 1/18/1942 | Gandhiji restarts 'Harijan' and allied weeklies. |
| 7/19/1952 | India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 runs earlier in the day. |
| 11/29/1644 | The Massachusetts General Court issued a call for local pastors to learn the dialects of neighboring Indian tribes as an aid toward converting them to the Christian faith. |
| 3/26/1969 | Vikram Rathour, cricketer (Indian Test opening batsman 1996-), was born in Jalandhar. |
| 9/24/1861 | Madame Bhikaji Rustom Cama, mother of the Indian Revolution, was born in Bombay. From an early age she took interest in social and political work. |
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