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Historical Event on 8/20/1909
Urmila Devi Shastri, freedom fighter, was born at Srinagar.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
2/21/1899 | Suryakant Tripathi `Nirala', famous Hindi poet, was born. |
7/5/2000 | The Prime Minister rules out restoring pre-1953 status to Jammu and Kashmir. |
8/18/1700 | Bajirao I, the second peshwa, was born. |
1/10/1959 | Martin Luther King, the US Black leader, arrived in New Delhi. |
6/27/1922 | Vaidyalingam Akhiladam Perunglur, Gyanpeeth awardee and famous Tamil author, was born. |
5/1/1909 | Madame Bhikaji Cama secretly left London and went to France where she was wrote and spoke about the cruelty of Britishers. |
9/11/2000 | A Delhi High Court exonerates senior Congress(I) leader and former Union Minister H.K.L. Bhagat in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case in Delhi (in Mansarovar Park in East Delhi on November 1, 1984). |
12/21/2000 | Central Zone and South Zone are declared joint winners after the game ends in a tie in the final of the Deodhar Trophy one day cricket tournament in Lucknow. |
1/31/1992 | The Securities and Exchange Board of India given statutory power as an autonomous body. |
7/17/2000 | 55 persons die as a Boeing 737 of Alliance Air from Calcutta to Delhi via Patna and Lucknow crashes at Gardanibagh, one km from the runway at the Patna airport. |
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