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Historical Event on 8/20/1986
A restructured 20-point programme announced.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/3/1996 | Deve Gowda, PM, to attend G-15 summit in Harare. This was his first foreign trip as PM. |
| 11/5/1907 | Special commissioner appointed to deal with famine conditions. |
| 4/10/1993 | Student hijackers of IA plane overpowered in Lucknow. |
| 10/28/1929 | Narotam Puna, cricketer (Bombay NZ off-spinner v England 1966), was born. |
| 1/25/1954 | Manabendranath Roy, famous leader of socialist revolution, passed away at Dehradun. |
| 1/17/1909 | Bejoy Kumar Sinha, journalist and social worker, was born at Kanpur. |
| 3/16/1912 | Gandhiji commends Gokhale's attempts for abolition of indenture system. |
| 5/10/1999 | Tamil Nadu Government withdraws the controversial Prevention of Terrorist Activities (POTA) Bill. |
| 9/9/1949 | Hindi was accepted as the national language of India. |
| 1/6/1932 | Kamleshwar, famous Hindi writer, was born. |
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