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Historical Event on 8/20/1909
Urmila Devi Shastri, freedom fighter, was born at Srinagar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/1/1993 | Narayan Ganesh Goray passed away (1-5-98). |
| 1/14/1926 | Mahashweta Devi was born at Jinda Bahar Lane, Dhaka. |
| 12/16/1999 | Michael Johnson's 400m world record (43.18s) set up in the Seville World championship was ratified by IAAF. Other records also ratified were Kenyan Noah Ngeny's 1000m mark (2 11.96, Reiti, Italy) and Moroccan Hicham el Guerrouj's 2000m (4 44.79, Berlin). |
| 12/16/1999 | Iltutmish, father of Radiya Sultan, died in Delhi. |
| 10/4/1986 | Helicoptor Corporation of India established. |
| 10/14/1992 | 10 Indians sentenced to six years in jail in the UAE on account of staging a play in Sharjah. |
| 1/27/1996 | 'Prithvi', surface-to-surface missile, test-fired successfully. |
| 1/1/1994 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of Family"". |
| 1/23/1997 | 50,000 miners in Orissa lose jobs as 57 mines are closed down. |
| 5/11/1995 | In central Kashmir, militants burnt the Charar-e-Sherif shrine (the tomb of Sufi saint Sheikh Noorudin Noorani) built in 1460 by Zain-ul- Abidin. |
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