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Historical Event on 11/20/1942

Attri Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested for further six months. She was earlier arrested for personal satyagraha and to hoist the national flag in Delhi Central Jail on January 26.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/8/1985P. K. Kaul was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 22-08-1986.
12/19/1994K. A. P. Vishwanathan, famous Tamil author, passed away.
12/19/1994Firuz Shah Tughluq(1351-88), nephew of Muhammad Tughluq, succeded as emperor of Delhi.
10/13/1991Captain Satish Sharma nominated to contest from Amethi.
4/24/1944Shivprasad Gupta, philanthropist, freedom fighter and educationist, passed away.
11/15/1982Acharya Vinoba Bhave, great freedom fighter and social reformer, died (88 years) in Pawnar Ashram at Wardha near Nagpur, Maharashtra.
1/25/1930Mehdi Baqer, great educationist, was born at Faizabad in UP.
10/26/1961Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October.
10/1/1953The first new state in India since 1949, Andhra Pradesh, is established on purely linguistic basis and formally inaugurated. This state was created by sub-dividing state of India, Madras Province and this movement was started by Shriramulu for which he had to sacrifice his life.
2/7/1990Krishan Kant became the Governor of Andhra Pradesh till 21/08/1997.