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Historical Event on 9/14/1820

Agri-Horticultural Garden of Calcutta started functioning.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/20/1994Chinese film 'Farewell, My Concubine' and Adoor Gopalakrishnan's 'Vidheyan' adjudged best Foreign and Indian films in the 25th International Film Festival at Calcutta.
7/23/1904The Great Indian Peninsula Railway started First Class restaurant cars on its mail trains.
12/31/1993Manipur placed under President's rule; Bangarappa launches Karnataka Congress Party.
2/1/1986Pope John Paul II arrives in New Delhi for a 10-day visit.
5/26/1999IRS-P4(OCEANSAT) with an Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) and a Multi-frequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer (MSMR) and two small satellites (KITSAT of Korea and TUBSAT of Germany) launched by PSLV-C2.
4/21/1955Avadi session of the Indian National Congress adopts a socialistic pattern of society for India.
1/1/1986This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Peace Year"".
7/5/1882Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), classical singer and Muslim mystic, was born. He was instrumental in bringing Sufism to the music.
7/10/1949Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, great Indian cricket player (opener, 10,122 Test runs), was born in Bombay. He has received Arjun Award (1975) and Padma Bhushan (1980).
1/19/1966Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs.