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Historical Event on 8/20/1944

Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee, was born in Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/14/1658Dara Sulaiman Shukoh was defeated in the struggle for Delhi throne Shuja's in the battle of Bahadurpur near Varanasi.
11/10/1938Mustafa Kemal Ataturk passed away at Istanbul.
5/1/1966Marathi becomes the official language of Maharashtra.
8/11/1999Ramnath Parkar, former Indian opening batsman, died in Mumbai.
10/14/1910Further unrest took place in Lhasa, Tibet, following the arrest of Dalai Lama's agent by the Chinese on the Chinese frontier with India.
6/20/1948Lord Mountbatten resigns as the Governor General of Indian Union.
7/30/2000Punjab Police men and Indian Railways women claim the Federation Cup basketball tournament at Visakhapatnam.
2/18/1931Swraj Paul, Indian and British industrialist and multi-millionaire (Caparo), was born.
5/7/1950Punjab Mail train crashed near Jasidh killing 81 persons.
9/29/2000A special court convicted former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then cabinet colleague Buta Singh in the JMM MPs' bribery case. Nine others got benefit of doubt.