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Historical Event on 1/20/1897

Gandhiji declines to prosecute assailants.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/5/1988The country goes without newspapers on this day as the entire newspaper industry had protested against the Defamation Bill.
8/9/1970Trailokyanath Chakravarty died in Delhi.
11/24/1926Aurobindo Ghose, former I.C.S. and revolutionary, attained full enlightenment I.e 'Purna Siddhi'.
11/16/1958India and U.S.S.R. sign trade agreement to exchange Soviet industrial and agricultural equipment for farm commodities at Moscow.
1/22/2000India retains the golf title in the SAARC championship in Dhaka.
8/28/1997Tiwari and Surinderjit Kaur set national records in hammer throw in Federation Cup Athletics.
8/10/1905Sundarji Gokuldas Betard, modern Gujrathi poet, was born.
1/17/1993LTTE commander Sadasivan Krishnakumar alias Kittu was killed in a ship blaze off Madras coast.
11/20/1967First Indian made Sounding Rocket 'Rohini RH75' launched into space from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station.
3/18/1896Pandit Kunjilal Dubey, freedom fighter, educationalist and politician, was born at Amgaon, District Narsinghpur.