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Historical Event on 8/20/1917

Declaration of historic 'Mongegue'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/6/1937Yashwant BipinBihari Sinha was born in Patna (Bihar).
10/31/1984Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.'
11/14/1993Former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, who quit JD, joins BJP.
9/1/1909Father Kamil Bulke was born. He produced a handy English to Hindi dictionary. He did his Ph.D. on 'Ramcharita Manas' and was Head of Hindi Department in Patna University.
9/1/1909Jesuit father and first Englishman S.J.Thomas Stephens arrived at Goa in a Portuguese ship. He settled here and died in 1619.
8/8/1911Following the end of a heavy monsoon, parts of India were hit by a cholera epidemic.
10/3/1988Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh after 30 months of being held captive.
10/17/1949The Constituent Assembly of India adopted Article 370 of the Constitution making special provisions for J&K.
10/17/1999Dingko Singh won the bantam weight gold while Services' Ramanand was adjudged the best boxer in the National Boxing championship which concluded in Shimla.
10/1/1997Gerhard Fischer, social worker, nominated for Gandhi peace prize. The 76-year-old German "Ambassador of Humanity'' was unanimously chosen for his contribution for social, economic and political transformation through non-violence