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Historical Event on 9/20/1932

Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" (hunger strike) in Poona prison to secure abolition of separate electorates for Harijans and untouchables.

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12/22/1940Manvendranath Rai established the Radical Democratic Party.
10/2/2000Mukesh Kumar, India hockey player, retires from international hockey.
2/22/1905Purushotamsing Bajaj, industrialist and social worker, was born at Shikarpur (Sind).
11/13/1998Pravabati Devi (88), freedom fighter and `Mother Teresa of Orissa', dies at the orphanage set up by her at Chharchanpali.
12/27/1975372 miners die in a huge blast in Bihar state.
8/17/1911Y.R. Lokurkar, senior journalist, was born.
3/18/1948Socialist Party of India (SPI) disassociates itself from the Congress.
6/22/198219 persons were killed and 25 injured when an Air India Boeing 707 from Singapore via Madras crashed at Bombay.
2/19/1993Salseng C. Marak sworn in as the Congress-I CM in Meghalaya.