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Historical Event on 2/20/1953

India opens $ 140 mil. power system modeled after TVA.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/2/1986Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India.
2/11/1968Deendayal Upadhyaya, great philosopher, litterateur, social worker, thinker and founder of Jansangh, passed away.
1/18/1985Spy ring cracked. Top Government officials, businessmen held.
12/5/1951Abanindranath Tagore, a great Modern Indian Painter, passed away.
9/23/1858Grant Duf, historian who studied Maratha history, died.
9/23/1858Saint Gora Kumbhar, an intense devotee of the deity Vitthal at Pandharpur, took Samadhi in Ter village in Osmanabad Zilla, near Latur.
1/11/1998C. V. Gadkari, great Indian Test all-rounder 1953-55, passed away.
3/12/1913Yashvantrao Balvantrao Chavan, first Chief Minister of Maharashtra, was born.
9/15/1992Price of petrol, diesel and cooking gas hiked.
7/27/1928Rameshwar Sahai Saxena, famous writer, lawyer and journalist, was born at Lalitpur, (UP).