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Historical Event on 9/20/1933
Annie Besant, veteran freedom fighter for India, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/25/1813 | First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed. |
| 6/30/1817 | Dadabhai Navroji, veteran leader and industrialist, died. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 10/10/1990 | Following political uncertainties in the wake of Veerendra Patil's decision to stay on in defiance of Congress Party's decision, President's rule was imposed in Karnataka. |
| 11/28/1993 | JRD Tata, 89, passed away in Geneva. |
| 4/1/2000 | India wins four golds in the under-14 Youth chess championship in Teheran. |
| 6/5/1995 | Manmohan Singh re-elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam. |
| 10/2/2000 | Mukesh Kumar, India hockey player, retires from international hockey. |
| 3/28/1997 | Final phase of repatriation of Chakma and other tribal refugees of the Chittagong Hill Tracts from Tripura begins. |
| 12/8/1985 | The first summit was held at Dhaka. (7 0r 8). |
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