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Historical Event on 8/20/1988

Earthquake measuring 6.5 on Richter Scale strikes India and Nepal. Thousands killed.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/15/1994India signed `GAT' agreement.
7/4/1989Capt. W. A. Sangma appointed Governor of Mizoram and A. A. Rahim Governor of Meghalaya.
10/29/1996Kamini' (Kalpakkam Mini), a 30 KW research reactor which uses man-made Uranium-233 as fuel and the only working reactor of its kind in the world, attains 'criticality'.
4/1/2000India wins four golds in the under-14 Youth chess championship in Teheran.
4/6/1955Vinayak Maharaj Masurkar, great Samarth Saint, died.
1/24/1951Nehru assails US. demand for UN to name Peking as aggressor in Korea, New Delhi.
5/17/1873Hindi daily 'Bharat Mitra' started from Calcutta.
7/14/1992The Lok Sabha passes a bill seeking to confer on the President the powers of the Legislature of J&K.
9/13/1906Surendra Kumar Dey, social reformer and politician, was born at Sylhet (Bangladesh).
10/15/1946Muslim League decides to participate in the Interim Government.