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Historical Event on 3/20/1977

General Election (6th) of India ends. First time Indian National Congress Party lost in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/5/1999Malcom Marshall, legendary West Indian fast bowler, died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after battling colon cancer for over six months.
10/20/1998Security forces unearth 770 kg of RDX and plastic explosives in the Tangmay area of Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir.
6/5/1984Operation 'Blue Star' was launched by Indira Gandhi. Indian commandos stormed into Sikh's holiest gurudwara Golden Temple in Amritsar to flush out the terrorists and other anti-government elements. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and over 325 people were killed in the temple. Thus a great rebel arose all over the nation and specially in Punjab.
5/17/1916Gurusiddappa Sivappa, great industrialist, was born at Bangalore.
8/11/1999Ramnath Parkar, former Indian opening batsman, died in Mumbai.
1/29/1912Judge A.N. Ray, Chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born.
8/19/1947Vinayak Damodar Karnataki (Master Vinayak), famous Marathi actor, director and producer, died.
9/30/1894Rangnath Ramchandra Diwakar, Gandhian leader, was born.
4/6/1966Mihir Sen, first Indian swimmer to achieve many remarkable feats, swam across the 'Palk Strait' measuring 22 kms between India & Sri Lanka (Cylone).
3/23/1923Hemu Kalani, revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Sukkur, Sind. He was held for removing of fishplates which caused derailment of British Wagon.