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Historical Event on 8/20/1909

Urmila Devi Shastri, freedom fighter, was born at Srinagar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/27/2000Venus Williams of USA claims the women's gold in the tennis event in the Sydney Olympics.
2/27/1996Manmohan Singh presents the vote-on-account as part of the interim budget in Lok Sabha for 1996-97 with a Rs. 5000 crore deficit.
1/10/1839Tea from India first arrives in UK.
6/6/1962General Election ( 3rd) of India ends.
8/21/1997Government extends the provision of the payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 to all those societies and trusts which employed 10 or more people.
12/31/1996Gold import policy liberalised.
4/2/1870Poona Sarvajanik Sabha was found. 95 members from different parts of Maharashtra assembled in Pune during its founding.
12/17/1938Charuchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali story writer and novelist, died.
8/19/1946Cabinet Mission's plan announced an interim government, which was formed by reconstituting the Viceroy's Executive Council. The Muslim League took umbrage and started direct action. Riots broke out as Muslims attacked Hindu's in Calcutta and the rest of Bengal. The Viceroy persuaded the Muslim League to join the government. But the League declined to join the Constituent Assembly unless the demand for a seperate state of ""Pakistan"" was conceded.
8/4/1936Indian Government Act was approved by the king.