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Historical Event on 3/20/1920
Usha Mehta, freedom fighter, was born at Satara. Her name is closely attached with freedom movement via Bombay Radio, as she and Babubhai Prasad and Vitthalbhai Zaveri founded this Radio and started motivating people of India with their telecasts.
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| 5/19/1969 | Cyclone hit Andhra Pradesh claiming 608 lives and rendering 20,000 homeless. |
| 7/21/1906 | W.C. Bonerjee, first President of Indian National Congress, passed away. |
| 10/26/1995 | India decides to go ahead with Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme in the wake of US stand to supply $370 million arms package to Pakistan. |
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| 1/1/1914 | Dhirendra Nath Mukherji, social worker, was born at Bankura, West Bengal. |
| 3/22/1963 | World Bank loans India $ 67 mil. to improve its railways. |
| 2/16/1992 | Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated. |
| 3/16/1977 | Sixth General Election of India begins. |
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