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Historical Event on 8/20/1988
Earthquake measuring 6.5 on Richter Scale strikes India and Nepal. Thousands killed.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/16/1994 | Phani Mujumdar, veteran film producer and director, passed away. |
| 8/21/1997 | Krishan Kant assumes office as tenth Vice President of India. |
| 11/16/2000 | The Government to reduce equity holding in nationalised banks from 51 per cent to 33 per cent. |
| 2/13/1984 | Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister, inaugurated the first manufacturing work of Indian Submarines at Mazgaon Dock, Bombay. |
| 9/3/1997 | Anjan (Lalji Pandey), well known lyricist and noted poet, died. |
| 12/15/1965 | Maharastra State Agriculture Industry Development Corporation established. |
| 4/4/1938 | A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself. |
| 11/23/1983 | Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), the seventh biennial Commonwealth Summit, meets in New Delhi. |
| 10/10/1910 | Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis, famous doctor who worked in China, was born at Solapur, Maharashtra. |
| 1/3/1931 | Yashwant Dinkar Phadke, great critic of literature, was born. |
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