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Historical Event on 5/20/1996
CPI Leader Indrajit Gupta appointed pro-term speaker in the Lok Sahba.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/15/1992 | Price of petrol, diesel and cooking gas hiked. |
| 10/26/1962 | After Chinese attack, Emergency and Defence of India Ordinance was declared for the first time in India by the President. |
| 6/25/1998 | Sikh high priests exonerate the Akali Dal leader and chief of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Gurcharan Singh Tohra, of charges of violating a ``Hukumnama'' (religious edict) issued by the Akal Takht, which prescribed a complete boycott of the members of the Nirankari missions for their ''blasphemous'' activities. |
| 3/10/1940 | Banwarilal Bhagwandas Purohit, famous leader of Vidarbha, was born. |
| 8/15/1996 | Deve Gowda speaks in Hindi on the occasion of the 50th Independence Day. |
| 10/20/1961 | B. S. Guha, famous human scientist, died. |
| 3/17/1957 | New Central Cabinet under J. L. Nehru sworn in. |
| 5/31/1977 | Major Premchand and Naik Nima Dorji Sherpa, in the team on Indian Army Treckers, reached the peak of Kanchenjunga. They were amongst the first Indians to reach this peak. |
| 6/27/1894 | Chhaganbapa (Chhaganlal Karamshi Parekh), great social worker, was born. |
| 11/19/1991 | Two national commissions on women set up. |
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