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Historical Event on 2/20/1982

The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members of Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was finally shifted to College of Materials Management Jabalpur. The original memorial was erected on 15 Apr 1946 from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/21/1999Mr. A. C. Muthiah was elected president and Kapil Dev the senior coach at the Board of Control of Cricket in India AGM in Jaipur.
5/19/1911K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind.
3/11/1984India's first modern boas `Jalusha' started from Vishakhapattanam.
1/5/1952U.S. signs five-year accord to give India $ 50 mil. for economic development in New Delhi.
2/22/1997India, Turkmenistan and Iran sign transit agreement.
2/8/1921Chamber prince of a Royal Proclamation was inaugurated.
3/21/1994Pakistan blocks access to Indian consulate in Karachi.
3/3/1700Chhatrapati Rajaram Maharaj died of lung infection due to smallpox at Sinhagad fort.
1/18/1938The last batch of the political prisioners sailed back to the mainland from the Cellular Jail.
1/6/1942Four of the flight's six aircraft were promptly lost to Japanese bombing and No. 4 Flight gave place in Moulmein to No. 3 Flight which had meanwhile re-equipped with four ex-RAF Blenheim ls. B-314 completed first commercial flight around the world.