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Historical Event on 8/20/1944

Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee, was born in Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/15/1997Interest rate on domestic term deposits brought down from 10 to nine per cent by RBI.
10/21/1990Doordarshan starts afternoon news bulletins at 2 p.m. (Hindi) and 3 p.m. (English) of 7.5 minutes duration on week days and 5 minutes on Sundays.
6/20/1756A group of British soldiers along with Halvel were imprisoned by some rebellions in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the ""Black Hole of Calcutta."" Most of them died here.
7/13/1830Raja Ram Mohun Roy and Alexander Duff, in 1921 Scottish Church College, General Assembly s Institution was established with only five students, where teaching of the Bible took an important part.
5/27/1930Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was arrested during Salt Movement.
6/6/1990GOI decides to extend validity of passports to 10 years.
10/18/1968Narendra Deepchand Hirwani, cricketer (Ind leggie 16 wickets vs WI on debut in 1988), was born in Gorakhpur.
5/17/1980V. S. Kumar Anandan sets record of balancing on one foot for continuous 33 hrs.
2/4/1953Indo-Pak talk on Kashmir opened under Dr. Graham in Geneva.
10/3/1913Sudangsu Abinash Banerjee, 'Montu', cricketer, (5 wickets, 1 test vs West Indies) was born in Calcutta.