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Historical Event on 8/20/1991
India's Ambassador to Romania J.F.Ribeiro shot by Sikh extremists in Bucharest.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/4/1903 | Gandhiji established the weekly journal ""Indian Opinion"" organised at Phoenix farm near Durban. |
| 3/17/1985 | Dattu Phadkar, cricketer (Indian all-rounder, 31 Tests 1947-58), passed away. |
| 12/15/1974 | Rasulatbai, veteran classical music expert, died. |
| 1/30/1996 | Supreme Court directs CBI and other govt. agencies to speed up the Jain hawala probe. |
| 11/18/1898 | Prabodhchandra Bagchi, researcher of ""Ancient History of India"", was born. |
| 2/16/1896 | Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', great Hindi poet, litterateur, writer, social worker and editor, was born. |
| 12/4/1910 | Ramaswami Venkataraman, former President of India (1987-92), was born. |
| 2/19/1992 | An all-time low turn out of about 30\% registered in the Punjab Assembly polls. |
| 11/12/1984 | Rajiv Gandhi elected Congress (I) President. |
| 12/26/1997 | Four MPs - Mr. Suresh Kalmadi from Pune, Mr. Anadi Charan Sahu from Cuttack, Mr. Mohan Delkar from Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Mr. Gopal Tandel from Daman & Diu- resign from Congress(I). |
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