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Historical Event on 10/20/1969

Punjabrao Agriculture University established.

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9/2/1960Dr. Shankar Purushottam Adharkar, famous Botanist in India, passed away.
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1/18/1932Shyam Nandan Kishore, great educationist, was born at Muzaffarpur.
12/28/1990Following the war threat as the January 15 deadline set by UN for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait approaches, GOI advise Indians in Gulf to send back their families to India.
12/4/1993Mulayam Singh Yadav, takes over as CM of UP; Bhairon Singh Sekhawat of Congress sworn in as CM of Rajasthan.
3/30/1997Congress Party withdraws support to the 10-month old H. D. Deve Gowda Government at the centre, and stakes its claim to form an alternative government.
3/14/1931First Indian talkie film 'Alam Ara' released at Majestic Cinema, Bombay. Directed by Ardeshir Irani, the film was 11,152 ft. long and was produced by Imperial Film Co., Bombay and beared censored No. 10043 on March 11. The most remarkable thing about this film was birth of sound in Indian films, it came with a bang and quickly displaced the silent movies and brought revolutionary changes in the whole set up of the industry.
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3/28/1999Pakistan decides to ease visa restrictions for the aged, women and children from India in response to New Delhi's move towards visa relaxation for several categories of Pakistani nationals.