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Historical Event on 7/20/1955

Suez Canal nationalised by Gamal Abdul Nassar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/9/1989Yasser Arafat, PLO Chairman, arrives on a two-day state visit to India.
9/29/2000A special court convicted former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then cabinet colleague Buta Singh in the JMM MPs' bribery case. Nine others got benefit of doubt.
9/29/1993National Human Rights Commission set up.
1/21/1997Delhi was the first city to use propane gas when 50 autorickshaws were started on trial basis.
3/2/1933Anandji, famous music director, was born.
5/11/1999Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case: The Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence on four of the 26 accused, life imprisionment to three and acquitted the remaining 19 people.
6/18/1956New Hindu Succession Act was passed.
2/12/1890Shastri A. R. Krishna was born.
6/8/199255-60\% polling takes place in the Andhra, Bihar, W. Bengal and Delhi by-elections.
3/11/1993Gen. K.V. Krishna Rao returns to Jammu & Kashmir as Governor.