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Historical Event on 8/20/1944
Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee, was born in Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/25/1971 | National Science and Technology Committee established. |
| 11/17/1935 | Deodhar Gopal Krishna, great social worker and architect of ""Seva Sadan"" (Pune), passed away. |
| 11/17/1935 | Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born. |
| 8/15/1947 | India gains independence from the British rule and Pakistan emerges as a separate Islamic nation. Around 600,000 die in clashes during the subsequent population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries. |
| 8/7/1947 | BEST services were started by Mumbai Mahanagarpalika. |
| 2/4/1973 | India's then biggest commercial ship merchant fleet 88,000 DWT super tanker ""Jawaharlal Nehru"" commenced its services for the Nation. |
| 10/27/1973 | The first Ladies Police Station started functioning at Calicut in Kerala. |
| 2/7/1981 | 61 die in circus fire in Bangalore. |
| 2/16/1955 | Maghnath Saha, famous scientist, passed away. |
| 2/22/1993 | Sudhakarrao Naik, Mahrashtra CM, resigns in the wake of party dissidence. |
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