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Historical Event on 8/20/1986

A restructured 20-point programme announced.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/9/1997G. K. Moopanar, Tamil Maanila Congress president, and his party colleagues Jayanthi Natarajan, Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation, and Peter Alphonse, resign from Rajya Sabha membership following a petition filed by Shiv Sena member Sanjay Nirupam seeking their disqualification 'for defecting from Congress(I)'.
5/21/1994JKLF leader Mohammed Yasim Malik agrees to eschew violence provided the Centre guarantees a dialogue without pre-conditions.
5/25/1886Rash Behari Basu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, was born at Palara Bighati village, West Bengal.
7/17/1930Lord Irwin,British Viceroy, allows Indian moderates to visit Gandhi in prison.
1/28/1992Umanath Vachaspati, Magsesey Award winner, passed away.
10/22/1999The Prime Minister warns of more 'hard decisions'.
12/19/1857The trial on Raja Nahar Singh, who was arrested and then was prisioned at Metcalfe House, began on Saturday at 1100 hrs at Delhi.
3/17/1959Dalai Lama XIV flees from Tibet after Chinese military occupied Tibet.
3/13/1947Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as Viceroy of British India. He ruled upto 14th August, 1947.
3/28/1645Har Govind Singh, Sikh Guru, died.