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Historical Event on 12/20/1956
Saint Gadgebaba died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/30/1966 | First meeting of the Shiv Sena at Shivaji Park. |
| 7/27/1928 | Rameshwar Sahai Saxena, famous writer, lawyer and journalist, was born at Lalitpur, (UP). |
| 2/14/1925 | Mohan Dhariya, politician and nature lover, was born. |
| 8/15/1921 | Amrit Rai, novelist and translater, was born . |
| 9/17/1938 | Dilip Purushottam Chitre, famous Marathi poet, story writer, critic and Sahitya Academy awardee, was born. |
| 12/17/1645 | Noorjahan Begum passed away. |
| 11/19/1978 | Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for second time. |
| 4/22/1812 | Dalhousie, governor general of India, was born. |
| 1/1/1903 | A vast crowd thronged the great plain outside Delhi today, waiting to hear the declaration that King Edward VII was Emperor of India. The crowd, clothed in brilliantly colored garments, was largely composed of common people who had come to the durbar to see India's princes pledge their fealty to the Emperor . The Duke of Connaught, representing King Edward, sat on the left of the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon of Kedleston, who sat on a throne surrounded by giant silver footstools. Lord Curzon spoke briefly, then read a message from the King, who expressed regret at not being present at the durbar and his wishes for ""the increasing prosperity of my Indian Empire."" Among the dignitaries in the amphi-theater were 600 veterans of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857-58. |
| 5/18/1974 | Jayaprakash Narayan led a procession against economic conditions in Patna. There was lathi charged and he issued a call for total revolution. He also started the 'Citizens for Democracy' movement. |
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