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Historical Event on 8/20/1905
Lord George Curzon reigned as the Viceroy of India. He was then replaced by Lord Minto II, the Earl of Minto.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/25/1941 | 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India. |
| 11/23/1991 | Bhaskaracharya Research Institute established at Dhule. |
| 11/16/1993 | Kashmir's 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants' surrender. |
| 4/22/1930 | Revolutionary Surjya Sen's many associates were killed and Surjya Sen ""Masterda"" himself went underground, on Jalalabad Hill and started extending his activities to neighbouring districts. |
| 9/18/1924 | Mahatma Gandhi was to fast for 21 days in despair of the recent riots between Muslims and Hindus. It was an expression of his 'unbearable hopelessnes'. ""Nothing I say or write,"" he said, ""can bring the two communities together."" Even as he spoke there were reports of further riots at Kohat, in which 20 Hindus and 11 Muslims were killed. Reservations, Gandhi speaking in Allahabad said, reserved the right to drink water with or without salt. ""It is both a penance and a prayer. As it is penance I need not have taken the public into my confidence but I publish it as, let me hope, an effective prayer to Hindus and Muslims, not to commit suicide"". |
| 10/3/1999 | India finished with seven silver and four bronze medals in the Asian Junior Athletic Championship in Singapore. |
| 12/17/1934 | Khandesh Gandhi Mir Sukrulla, great patriot and freedom fighter, died. |
| 4/30/1888 | Hailsones kill 246 in Moradabad. |
| 9/4/1862 | Kaminikumar Chanda, social reformer and politician, was born. |
| 12/22/1999 | The Government says there is no hidden agenda behind the US lifting of curbs. |
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