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Historical Event on 2/20/1847

Turf Club of Royal Calcutta was established.

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1/9/1998Three RJD ministers in the Gujral Cabinet - Mr. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, Capt. Jai Narayan Nishad and Mrs. Kanti Singh - resign.
1/14/1896Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, former Finance Minister of India, was born.
1/26/1950India is proclaimed a Sovereign Democratic Republic ceasing to be a British dominion and adopted Indian Constitution which came into force.
12/7/1997Leander Paes awarded 'The Sportstar' award.
7/25/1958Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, inaugurated.
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10/21/1989Sukhdev Singh alias Sukha and Harminder Singh alias Jinda sentenced to death for the murder of former Army Chief Gen. A. K. Vaidya.
3/12/1969Reactor Research Centre established at Kalpakkam. On 18th December 1985, it was renamed as Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research.
9/10/1999Top seeds Bhupathi and Paes finished runners-up in the US Open doubles, losing to Sebastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien in the final.
1/19/1976C. V. Bawdekar, famous journalist, died.