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Historical Event on 2/20/1997

RBI relaxes capital adequacy norms for commercial banks.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/25/199631st Gyanpith award presented to M.T. Vasudevan Nair at Trivandrum by Dr. Karan Singh.
4/15/1938Madhurima. Ch, educationist and artist, was born in Begusarai, Bihar .
3/23/1757Lord Clive conquered Chandranagar after defeating the French troops.
8/9/1997Sonia Gandhi addresses Congress plenary session at Calcutta.
9/7/1998Prof. K. M. Chandy, Congress (I) leader and former Governor of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, died in Kochi at the age of 77.
11/24/1991Bihar's ruling JD makes a clean sweep of all the three Lok Sabha seats in the by-elections.
7/27/1998Gian Singh, convicted for the murder of Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, is sentenced to death.
4/9/1954India reports only 43\% of population speaks 15 recognized languages, noting 720 dialects, 23 tribal tongues.
1/14/1994The first Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Centenary Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research, instituted by ICMR in 1991-92, was announced in 1994 (Dr. G. Padamanabhan, Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is the first recipient of this Award).
11/16/1958India and U.S.S.R. sign trade agreement to exchange Soviet industrial and agricultural equipment for farm commodities at Moscow.