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Historical Event on 8/20/1885
First meeting of the Indian National Congress held.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/26/1989 | Eighth Antarctica Expedition returns after erecting India's second permanent manned station 'Maitri'. |
| 1/6/1948 | Security Council takes up India's complaint charging Pakistan with aggression in Kashmir. |
| 3/17/1943 | Indian troops retreat from Rathedaung to Buthidaung in the face of a renewed Japanese offensive on the Arakan front in Burma. |
| 9/24/1726 | King George empowered the company to establish Municipal Corporation and Mayor s Courts in Bombay and Calcutta. |
| 6/10/1928 | Papan Ramchand Panjabi, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1978-81, was born in Mumbai. |
| 2/28/1951 | Karsan Devji Ghavri, cricketer (Indian lefty medium pacer early 80s), was born in Rajkot. |
| 9/15/1992 | Price of petrol, diesel and cooking gas hiked. |
| 8/1/1905 | Horse drawn tram cars were closed down in Bombay. This service was started on May 9, 1874 with 20 tram cars and 200 horses. The very first day of its run, the number of passengers carried was 451 and the amount earned was Rs. 85/- on the last day it had 1360 horses and carried 71,947 passengers and earned Rs.4,260/. |
| 12/24/1998 | A.B.Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces increased cash awards for Asian Games medallists. |
| 1/27/1904 | R. P. Kanitkar, veteran writer, nationalist, journalist and editor, was born. |
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