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Historical Event on 7/20/1969

Varahagiri Venkatagiri retired from the post of President.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/1/1993Speaker disqualifies four Ajit group MPs.
3/15/1950Planning Commission Day.
9/30/2000Gen. S. Padmanabhan takes over as the new Chief of the Army Staff from Gen. V. P. Malik.
4/16/1976The govt. announces its new birth-control program to curb population growth.
9/22/1992Harshad Mehta released after 110 days in jail.
11/24/1941Attack on Pearl Harbour.
6/22/1898The last total Solar Eclipse of 19th century was seen in India.
1/10/1959Martin Luther King, the US Black leader, arrived in New Delhi.
6/11/1931Purushottam Vishnu Behre, great editor, story and novel writer, was born.
2/28/1930Sir Chandrasekhar V. Raman, Scientist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering ""Raman Effect"". He is also the first Indian to receive this honor in Physics, The Indian Nobel Laureates.