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Historical Event on 6/20/1948
Lord Mountbatten resigns as the Governor General of Indian Union.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/19/1991 | Kashinath Anant (Rambhau Joshi), famous editor, passed away. |
| 4/5/1944 | 221 Advance Base Depots laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks and succeeded in safe evacuation of Ordnance stores to an alternate site. |
| 1/19/1932 | Balgovind Jaiswal, educationist and author, was born at Mhow. |
| 2/23/1994 | India rebuts Pak charges on Kashmir in the 53-nation UN Commission on Human Rights. |
| 8/21/1955 | Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, noted critic of Gujarati literature, poet and story writer, passed away. |
| 4/13/1851 | Ganga Ram, great social reformer and an assistant engineer in the Public Works Department, Punjab, was born at Mangtanwala, now in Pakistan. |
| 10/16/1896 | Govindas Seth, hindi litterateur and politician, was born. |
| 8/19/1977 | Earthquake measuring 7.7-8.9 on the Richter Scale hits Indian Ocean. It is believed to be the strongest ever earthquake. |
| 7/23/1997 | India decides to sign U.N. Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. |
| 5/27/1906 | Maharashtra Sahitya Patrika Day. |
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