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Historical Event on 6/20/1918

K.K. Singh, politician and social worker, was born at Agra.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/20/1918Sikh Guru Amardasji, great social worker and teacher, was born at Basare village near Amritsar district.
10/31/1997Balmiki Prasad Singh takes over as Union Home Secretary. He succeeds K. Padmanabhaiah.
1/1/1991Bhanu Pratap Singh, Karnataka Governor, resigns. Goa governor Khurshid Alam Khan appointed in his place.
9/1/1947Indian Standard Time was adopted.
2/24/1946Mrs. Kashibai and Mrs. Babbai Lakshman, freedom fighters, were shot dead by the police.
8/15/1947India 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.
2/11/1861Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay was born in Khanyan village of Bengal.
12/10/1918Rowlatt Act introduced by Lord Chelmsford.
1/17/1989Colonel J. K. Bajaj was the first Indian to reach the geographic South Pole.
10/17/1998Nine women are buried alive as the roof of the 200-year-old Balaji temple in Varanasi's Ramghat area caves in.