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Historical Event on 6/20/1911
Dattatray Purushottam Karmarkar, veteran freedom fighter and former cabinet minister, died.
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| 8/17/1997 | I K Gujral, Prime Minister, said that Queen Elizabeth should not go to Amritsar, scene of Jallianwalla Bagh massacre, during her visit to India in October. |
| 6/24/1991 | Pranab Mukherjee appointed Dy. Chairman of the Planning Commission. |
| 4/2/1953 | Asaf Ali, lawyer, nationalist and writer, passed away. |
| 4/12/1752 | Agreement to save the king between Shinde and Holkar. |
| 1/27/1995 | K.V. Krishna Rao, J&K Governor, gets another term. |
| 12/29/1885 | A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay. |
| 2/4/1973 | India's then biggest commercial ship merchant fleet 88,000 DWT super tanker ""Jawaharlal Nehru"" commenced its services for the Nation. |
| 1/21/1943 | Hemu Kalani, revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was hanged by British police. |
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