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Historical Event on 8/20/1995
India and China decide to withdraw four army battalions from Chu Sumdurong valley near the Line of Actual Control.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/19/1998 | E.M.S. Namboodiripad, veteran communist leader of CPM and Kerala's first Chief Minister, passed away in Thiruvananthapuram at the age of 88. |
| 4/4/1996 | Supreme Court rules that political parties without audited accounts cannot take advantage of an election law that exempts tax expenditure on candidates. |
| 1/3/1836 | Munshi Newal Kishore, son of Jamuna Prasad Bhargava--a zamindar of Aligarh-- and a great erudite scholar, educationist, nationalist, social worker and a pioneer industrialist, was born. He was the founder of Navalkishore Press, Lucknow (1858), which published 2612 books that elaborated Hindi literature. He was the Publisher of Awadhi Newspaper in Asia. |
| 5/5/1989 | Naval Tata, famous industrialist, passed away. |
| 6/11/1991 | Over 106.6 million voters go to the second phase of national polls. |
| 6/11/1991 | Guru Ramdas, Sikh Guru, established Amritsar city. |
| 4/19/1975 | First Indian Satellite ''Aryabhata'' launched. The Satellite provided technological experience in building and operating a satellite system. It was launched by Russian launch vehicle Intercosmos. |
| 4/23/1926 | Madhavrao Sapre, great political leader, passed away. |
| 8/9/1942 | Subhash Chandra Bose (Netaji) forms the Indian National Army in Malaya with the help of the Japanese. He inaugurates the Government of Free India at Singapore. |
| 3/13/1991 | President R. Venkataraman dissolves the Lok Sabha. |
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