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Historical Event on 2/20/1999
Mr. Vajpayee travels to Lahore on the inaugural run of the bus between New Delhi and Lahore.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/13/1954 | Nehru says dispute over Portuguese colonies in India must be settled peacefully. |
| 1/3/1836 | Munshi Newal Kishore, son of Jamuna Prasad Bhargava--a zamindar of Aligarh-- and a great erudite scholar, educationist, nationalist, social worker and a pioneer industrialist, was born. He was the founder of Navalkishore Press, Lucknow (1858), which published 2612 books that elaborated Hindi literature. He was the Publisher of Awadhi Newspaper in Asia. |
| 12/12/1925 | Ghulam Mustafa Guard, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in 2 Tests for India 1959), was born in Surat, Gujarat. |
| 4/5/1990 | Lok Sabha passes the Punjab Bill. |
| 10/26/1943 | Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta. |
| 10/24/1605 | Jahangir became the fourth Emperor of Mughal Empire at Agra. |
| 7/19/1993 | Girilal Jain, senior journalist, passed away. |
| 3/29/1990 | Adoor Bhasi, Malayalam film actor, passed away. |
| 3/29/1932 | Sundaram Gundibalirama, right-hand batsman and right-arm medium fast bowler, was born at Udipi in Karnataka. |
| 1/11/1990 | R. Shekhar became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 14/12/90). |
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