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Historical Event on 8/20/1997

Lata Mangeshkar receives the Fifth Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award from the President.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/12/1978After several state victories, Congress party-I (for Indira) is recognized as official opposition.
11/23/1926Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian plant physiologist and physicist, passed away. He investigated the properties of very short radio waves, wireless telegraphy and radiation-induced fatigue in inorganic materials. His physiological work involved comparative measurements of the responses of plants exposed to stress. His invention of highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimuli enabled him to anticipate the parallelism between animal and plant tissues noted by later bio-physicists.รก
9/2/1960Dr. Shankar Purushottam Adharkar, famous Botanist in India, passed away.
10/13/1781A treaty was singed between the Britishers and ruler of Gwalior, Scindia.
3/3/1707Shehejade Muajjam declared himself as the successor of Aurangzeb and renamed himself Bahadurshah First.
4/17/1941Office of Price Administration was formed which handled the rationing of essential commodities.
4/17/1977Swatantra Party was merged in Janata Party.
12/27/1901Gandhiji moves resolution on South Africa at Congress.
4/20/1960Pannalal Ghosh, famous flute player, passed away.
3/19/1999The banned Maoist Communist Centre kills 34 Bhumihars at Senari village in Jehanabad district in Bihar.