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Historical Event on 7/20/1969

Varahagiri Venkatagiri retired from the post of President.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/6/1947All India Congress Commitee accepted the division of country.
3/15/1831First Marathi Almanac (Panchang) started by Ganpat Krishnaji.
9/24/1932Preetilata Waddedara, the first armed woman revolutionary, was hanged for ""Chatgaon Ammunitions Plot"".
3/19/1944Azad Hind Fauj hoisted the National Flag for the first time in North East India. On this event Bimal Roy produced the film 'Pehla Aadmi'.
2/26/1937Manmohan Desai, film producer and director, was born.
7/5/1658Aurangzeb arrested Murad.
5/13/1791Lord Cornwallis retreated back to Madras after the battle of Arikera.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
5/12/1906Gandhiji support the ""Home Rule"" for India in the name of ''justice and for good of humanity"".
5/2/1968Lok Sabha passed the Public Providend Fund Act.