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Historical Event on 12/20/1956
Saint Gadgebaba died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/26/1876 | Railway route started between Mumbai and Calcutta. |
| 12/24/2000 | Viswanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win a world chess title in the world chess championship in Taheran. |
| 3/10/1959 | Mukundrao Ramarao Jaikar, great freedom fighter and famous lawyer, passed away. |
| 1/11/1994 | Shankarrao Savekar, veteran cameraman of film industry, passed away. |
| 2/3/1994 | Akash' missile launched successfully. |
| 12/11/1931 | Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ""Osho"", guru of the rich, was born. |
| 8/17/1911 | Y.R. Lokurkar, senior journalist, was born. |
| 2/14/1959 | Nehru tells the International Conference on Planned Parenthood that Indian family planning efforts have not stopped population growth. |
| 3/24/1987 | First developmental launch of new generation rocket ASLV 'Stretched Rohini Satellite Series' (SROSS-1). This carried payload for launch vehicle performance monitoring and for gamma ray astronomy. This plunged within two minutes and 40 seconds of its launching. |
| 1/1/1931 | Gopi Chand Narang, great educationist and Urdu scholar, was born at Dukki. |
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