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Historical Event on 2/20/1997

RBI relaxes capital adequacy norms for commercial banks.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/14/1997N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh.
3/12/1993Powerful bomb blasts at twelve various places in Mumbai takes 317 lives.
9/1/1978Air Chief Marshal Idris Hasan Latif, PVSM, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/Aug/1981.
9/19/1960Sindhu River water-sharing settement was signed between India and Pakistan.
10/4/1974India in apartheid protest refuses to play South Africa in Davis Cup finals.
8/6/1920'Shakuntala' made by Oriental Film Mfg. Co. was released.
12/12/1971Sadik Gulam Muhammad, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, died.
5/23/1984Bachendri Pal, an employee of Tata Iron and Steel Co. Limited at Jamshedpur, conquers the summit of Mount Everest to become the first Indian woman and the fifth women in the world to achieve this feat.
9/27/1907Bhagat Singh, the legendary revolutionary, was born at Banga in West Punjab, Layalpur now in Pakistan.
7/10/1924Johannes B van Heutsz, Governor General of Dutch Indies (1904-09), died at the age of 73.