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Historical Event on 6/20/1921
Tilak University was established.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/9/1756 | Ali Bardi Khan of Bengal passed away in Murshidabad. His youngest daughter's son Siraj-ud-Daulah was crowned as King of Bengal when he was merely 20 years old after the death of King Tartar. |
| 10/11/1737 | A violent earthquake and cyclone hit Calcutta which claimed 3,00,000 lives. |
| 11/1/1991 | J.N. Dixit appointed the next Foreign Secretary. |
| 1/4/1932 | Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants. |
| 8/18/1920 | Harbhajan Singh, educationist and writer, was born at Lumding. |
| 12/22/1994 | Sunil Gavaskar takes oath of office as the Sheriff of Bombay. |
| 4/18/1916 | Iyyer G. Subramaniam, Congress leader, passed away. |
| 2/5/1992 | Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar. |
| 11/15/1993 | IA Airbus with 272 on board forcelands on a paddy field near Tirupati; all passengers safe. |
| 11/23/1897 | Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri, writer, was born. |
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