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Historical Event on 8/20/1991

Sivarasan and Subha, the main suspects in Rajiv Gandhi case, commit suicide in Bangalore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/3/1979M. M. Bhatnagar was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 14-06-1985.
1/19/1839Aden conquered by British East India Company.
3/19/1998BJP-led coalition government is sworn in. Atal Behari Vajpayee became the second time Prime Minister of India.
6/9/1986ICMR set up a network of Reference/Surveillance Centres for AIDS in almost all states of India.
1/4/1932Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants.
12/31/1902Dr. Raghuvir, dictionary creator, having knowledge of Vedic Sanskrit, Tebiti, Chinese and Mongolian, was born.
2/3/1954Over 350 Hindus trampled to death in a stampede at religious rites at New Delhi.
8/15/1950Indian Constitution goes into effect.
5/17/1865Raobahadur Govind Sakharam Sardesai `Riyasatkar' was born.
7/26/1844Gooroodas Banerjee was born in Calcutta. He was a Judge of Calcutta High Court.



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