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Historical Event on 8/20/1969

Varahagiri Venkata Giri was elected President and G. S. Pathak as Vice President of India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/1/1981Activists of the Dal Khalsa, who masterminded the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane. arrested.
10/1/1981ShahJahan, Mughal emperor of India, was born at Lahore.
1/24/1997Justice Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi and Justice Sukhdev Singh Kang appointed Governors of Tamil Nadu and Kerala respectively.
11/11/1913Gandhi sentenced to nine months' imprisonment at South Africa.
10/1/1854Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26.
12/21/1911Central Bank of India established.
9/20/1997President K. R. Narayanan inaugurates the first Dr. Ambedkar Law University in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
12/21/1993JPC indicts RBI and Finance Ministry in the multi-crore security scam.
10/26/1999Sonia Gandhi, Congress(I) president, visits cyclone-hit areas.
4/27/1918Gandhiji attends Viceroy's War Conference at Delhi and addresses it in Hindustani; subsequently tours Kaira District to raise recruits for army.