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Historical Event on 2/20/1999

Mr. Vajpayee travels to Lahore on the inaugural run of the bus between New Delhi and Lahore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/30/1817Dadabhai Navroji, veteran leader and industrialist, died.
7/1/1952Olympic Games open at Helsinki.
11/29/1961First cosmonaut of the world, Yuri Gagarin of Russia, came to India.
9/16/2000Aparna Popat loses to Kelly Morgan in the first round of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics.
2/11/1993Naik sacks six ministers in Maharashtra.
5/23/1924Venkatraman Narayan Swamy, cricketer (one Test v NZ in 1955, DNB, 0-45), was born in Calicut.
1/21/1922Juda Reuben, cricket Test umpire for 10 tests from 1969-77, was born in Mumbai.
2/20/1950Sarat Chandra Bose, freedom fighter, journalist, leader and elder brother of Subhashchandra Bose, passed away.
2/20/1950Babur won the first Panipat battle and entered in North India's capital Agra.
12/23/1977Harvinder Singh, great Indian ODI pace-bowler (1997), was born.