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Historical Event on 8/20/1996
India defeat Pakistan in Under-15 World Challenge Final at Lord's, England.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/18/1992 | Andhra government's order of setting up 12 private medical colleges quashed by a full bench of the High Court. |
| 11/21/1914 | Ujwala Mazumdar, freedom fighter and member of Bengal Valunteers, was born at Dhaka. |
| 1/18/1998 | Justice M. M. Punchhi is sworn in Chief Justice of India. |
| 4/4/1910 | Sri Aurobindo left politics and reached Pondicherry, where he made the seat of Yoga. |
| 11/16/1883 | Pandit Baburao Vishnu Paradkar, eminent Hindi editor and journalist, was born at Varanasi. |
| 8/1/1986 | Amnesty scheme for evaders of taxes announced. |
| 12/10/1878 | Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, great social reformer, ardent patriot, incisive thinker and eminent literateur was born at Hosur in Tamil Nadu. He was the first Indian Governor General of independent India and popularly known as 'Rajaji'. |
| 1/27/1996 | 'Prithvi', surface-to-surface missile, test-fired successfully. |
| 7/23/1991 | Premdatt Paliwal, president of All India Forward Block, died. |
| 6/11/1983 | Ghanshyam Das Birla, great freedom fighter, social reformer, pioneer of Indian business, industry, and nationalist, died at London at the age of 89. |
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