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Historical Event on 12/20/1942
Gangu Bai, freedom fighter from Kolhapur, died at Hinlang Jail because of police beating.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/28/1956 | Chou En- lai, Chinese Prime Minister, came to India. |
| 9/22/1789 | Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department. |
| 9/17/1892 | Shri Hanuman Prasad Poddar, social reformer, revolutionary and poet, was born in Shillong. |
| 3/11/1886 | Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi became the first Indian lady doctor. She passed the MBBS degree from Philadelphia University of America. |
| 11/27/1984 | Percy Norris, British Deputy High Commissioner in Bombay, assassinated in Bombay. |
| 11/5/1976 | Lok Sabha votes to extend its own life by another year. |
| 9/8/1947 | There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood. |
| 10/21/1916 | Dinkarrai Dhirajlal Desai, cricket Test Umpire for 3 tests from 1955-57, was born in Gujarat. |
| 2/16/1992 | Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated. |
| 7/10/1998 | India says it wont sign the CTBT unconditionally and invites Pakistan to join in disarmament efforts. |
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