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Historical Event on 1/20/1897
Gandhiji declines to prosecute assailants.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/27/1990 | A 10-member Progressive Democratic Front Ministry led by Churchill Alemao sworn in Goa. |
| 10/23/1996 | Shankarsinh Waghela (Mahagujarat Janata party), new chief minister, sworn in at Gandhinagar in Gujarat. |
| 5/8/1997 | India decides to import currency notes for the first time. |
| 3/13/1915 | Keshao Govind Jodh, social reformer, politician and lawyer, was born in Yevada, Maharashtra. |
| 7/4/1902 | Swami Vivekanand (Narendra Vishwanath Dutta), Indian religious leader and social reformer, died at Memorial Rock, KanyaKumari. His brilliant career came to a sudden end only at the age of 39. |
| 9/24/1992 | India's Leander Paes defeats Britain's Jeremy Bates in the Davis Cup tie in New Delhi. |
| 5/26/1926 | Kankalta, freedom fighter, was born in Bargawadi village at Assam . She was shot when she tried to flur the Indian National Flag in Gopur, Assam. |
| 8/6/1925 | Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad. |
| 1/15/1784 | Sir William Jones, Judge and linguist, and Sir Warren Hastings established the Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutta. This was the first scholastic institution. |
| 6/6/1981 | The worst-ever railway accident took place in Bihar when a train plunged in Samastipur river. |
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