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Historical Event on 6/20/1957

Govindrao Burhanpurkar, famous harmonium player, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/21/1962Major General I. J. Rikhye completed the task in accordance with the memorandum to UNSF, thus fulfilling the mandate of cessation of hostilities without any incident.
1/21/1922V. Rajagopal, cricket test umpire for 1 test in 1969-70, was born in Mumbai.
8/4/1956Apsara, India's first large scale Atomic Energy Nuclear Reactor and first in the East World, was commissioned in Trombay, Bombay.
1/18/1980Assam agitation turns violent; Army called in.
7/3/1956Pandit Nehru and New Zealand Prime Minister Sir Sidney Holland are given the freedom of the City at London.
11/27/1999BJP suspends former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Kalyan Singh from the primary membership of the Party for defying Mr. Vajpayee.
6/4/1972First Environment Day.
2/1/1990Governors named for 14 states.
8/29/1998Sachin Tendulkar receives the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Joginder Singh Saini receives the Dronacharya award, while several other leading sporstmen receive Arjuna award from President K.R. Narayanan in Delhi.
4/2/1997A division bench of Mumbai High Court holds that a married woman of a joint Hindu family can stake a claim to her father's property.