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Historical Event on 9/20/1886
Kuladhor Chaliha, one of the pioneer Congress leaders of Assam, was born at Sibsagar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/5/1915 | Balasaheb Devras, sar sanghchalak of RSS, was born. |
| 9/2/1970 | Parliament abolishes the privileges of 279 maharajahs in New Delhi. |
| 10/12/1967 | Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia also known as "Dauntless Dr. Lohia", freedom fighter, social reformer and socialist leader, died at the Willingdon Nursing Home, New Delhi. He had founded the 'Praja Socialist Party' in 195 |
| 5/18/1999 | R. B. Sapre, India's first national chess champion, died in Mumbai. |
| 6/1/1874 | East India Company was dissolved. |
| 3/16/1939 | Subroto Mukherjee became the first Indian Officer to command a squadron when he took over No.1. |
| 2/23/1993 | Pre-budget Economic Survey proposes closure of sick PSE and rationalisation of tax and interests rates. |
| 3/3/1967 | India signed the International Space Treaty in Moscow. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 8/26/1914 | Bengali revolutionaries looted 46,000 bullet ammunition and pistols from Calcutta Port for their revolutionary activities. |
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