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Historical Event on 2/20/1997
RBI relaxes capital adequacy norms for commercial banks.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/20/1955 | Jawaharlal Nehru breaks off relations with the Portuguese after the invasion of Goa by Indian nationalists. |
| 6/7/1998 | India emerges World Bank's single largest borrower with cumulative loans of 44 billion dollars. |
| 2/27/1996 | In the Jain hawala case, non bailable warrants of arrest issued against 10 politicians including BJP leader L.K. Advani, former Dy. PM Devi Lal and former Union Ministers. |
| 6/17/1839 | Lord William Bentik, governor general of India, was born. |
| 1/30/1999 | Pandit Ravi Shankar, sitar maestro, is chosen for Bharat Ratna. |
| 7/9/1755 | E Braddock, British General, was mortally wounded during French & Indian War. |
| 5/17/1857 | Bahadhur Shah II declared as the emperor of India. |
| 2/15/1936 | Nabin Chandra Bardoloi, freedom fighter, passed away. He was known for his patriotism and zeal for constructive work and was a forceful and emotional orator and debater and an eminent writer in Assamese litrature. He was also a musician and composed good number of patriotic poems and songs. |
| 12/27/1901 | Gandhiji moves resolution on South Africa at Congress. |
| 11/2/1972 | ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India. |
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