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Historical Event on 6/20/1957
Govindrao Burhanpurkar, famous harmonium player, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/18/1995 | Parvati Giri, also called the Little Mother Teresa, died in Orissa. She was 69. She was a social worker and had taken part during the Quit India movement. |
| 8/6/1999 | Kalpnath Rai (58), former Union Minister, died in New Delhi. |
| 7/4/1997 | Centre frees from its control nine top public sector undertakings, accounting for over Rs. 10,000 crore profits annually, to become global giants by providing them full financial and operational autonomy. This included newsprint and paper from licensing controls. |
| 8/9/1893 | Shivpujan Sahai, famous Hindi story writer and novelist, was born at Bihar in a middle class family. |
| 4/10/1997 | Announcement of UP's 70th new district to be re-named after Jyotiba Phule. |
| 6/18/1658 | Aurangzeb managed to capture the Agra Fort and later arrested his father Emperor Shahjahan. |
| 6/1/1996 | H.D. Deve Gowda's 21-member Central cabinet sworn in. |
| 3/3/1871 | Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent. |
| 4/24/1980 | Baba Gurbachan Singh, Nirankari chief, assassinated. His son named as the new chief. |
| 9/22/1992 | Indo-British Extradition Treaty signed in London. |
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