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Historical Event on 9/20/1933

Annie Besant, veteran freedom fighter for India, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/3/1939Motganhalli Laxmanarsu Jaisi alais Jaisimha, cricketer (Indian batsman of the sixties), was born in Secundrabad.
3/11/1886Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi became the first Indian lady doctor. She passed the MBBS degree from Philadelphia University of America.
7/5/1992Centre scraps octroi in Union Territories.
1/8/1992Luggage rate of railway passengers hiked by 30 per cent.
6/30/1817Dadabhai Navroji, veteran leader and industrialist, died.
3/26/1997Andhra Pradesh Assembly passes a Bill to amend the Prohibition Act, ending the state's 2-year experiment with total prohibition.
3/30/1976Shankar Puroshattam Mulgaonkar 'Raghuvir', famous painter, passed away.
2/23/1962The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).
4/15/1963Manoj Prabhakar, cricketer (Indian opening batsman & opening bowler), was born in Ghaziabad.
1/27/1988The first ever helicopter mail service was inaugurated at Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The first flight was from Port Blair to Havelock Island and its inaugurated by the Governer of Andaman and Nicobar Island.