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Historical Event on 5/20/1972

Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of 2nd Howrah bridge at Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/26/1934Akhil Bharatiya Gramin Udyog Sangh (All India Small Scale Industries Association) was founded and inaugrated by Mahatma Gandhi.
8/3/1954Atomic Energy Department established.
7/23/1923Navinchandra Chimanlal Pandya, great educationist, was born at Prantij, Ahmedabad.
3/2/1938Chandrakumar Agarwala, assamia poet, passed away.
2/1/1990Governors named for 14 states.
2/1/1990Firuz Shah Tughluq(1351-88), nephew of Muhammad Tughluq, succeded as emperor of Delhi.
6/1/1927Justice Savyasachi Mukherjee was born.
1/4/1881Publication of newspaper 'Kesri' started.
1/9/1971Muslim leader Sheik Mohammed Abdullah was barred from returning to Kashmir.
10/19/1983Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler.