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Historical Event on 12/20/1956

Saint Gadgebaba died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/24/1950Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first President of India.
3/9/1966India yields to Sikh demand for Punjab-speaking state.
2/24/1880Satyanarayan, great poet of Kannada language, was born.
12/3/1989Mulayam Singh Yadav named UP CM.
4/23/1928Narasimha Murtey, educationist, was born at Nandur, A.P.
11/23/1983Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), the seventh biennial Commonwealth Summit, meets in New Delhi.
9/16/2000In an important pronouncement, the Rajasthan High Court declares Jains as a religious minority community and allows teaching institutions set up by them to enjoy minority status under Articles 29 and 30 of the Constitution.
11/21/1961Communist China announced a cease-fire in its border war with India and said it would withdraw its troops 12 miles behind the boundary lines that existed in 1959. China said it was making the move to end the hostilities and to implement proposals it had made in October to settle the border dispute. Before the ceasefire, Chinese troops had seized the Indian headquarters at Bomdila near Tibet and were threatening the Indian state of Assam. Faced with defeat on the border and a Chinese invasion, the Indian government said it would ""respond positively"" to the Chinese offer of a ceasef
2/11/1979Shankarrao Narayanrao Mohite Patil `Sahakari Maharshi' passed away.
1/18/1995The 4-nation non-official initiative on Arms Reduction and Disarmament concludes with Goa Declaration (also called Shanghai-II).