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Historical Event on 7/20/1986

India withdraws from Edinburgh Commonwealth Games.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/2/1953Declaration by the PM that India was opposed to joining any power-block in the event of another war.
11/18/1839P Barron discovered Nainital and he was the British sugar merchant of Shahjahanpur.
6/10/1928Papan Ramchand Panjabi, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1978-81, was born in Mumbai.
7/24/1994Bodo kills 37 moslems in Bashbari, North Eastern India.
1/22/1922Shanta Buddhisagar, famous Marathi writer, was born.
1/18/1936Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story).
3/4/1996King of Bhutan arrives in India for a three-day state visit.
8/10/1982Memorial of 201 martyrs from Maharashtra inaugurated.
10/23/1996Shankarsinh Waghela (Mahagujarat Janata party), new chief minister, sworn in at Gandhinagar in Gujarat.
7/22/1992Security scam: Planning Commission member V. Krishnamurthy resigns.