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Historical Event on 7/20/1986

India withdraws from Edinburgh Commonwealth Games.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/3/1886Maithili Sharan Gupta, first man of modern Hindi poetry and literature, writer, patriot and social worker, was born at Chirgaon village near Jhansi.
1/1/1956No. 20 Squadron, Indian Air Force's first jet squadron equipped with Vampires, was formed and christened 'The Lightnings'.
6/15/1949Uloor S. Parmeswara Iyer, famous poet, writer, editor and literature, died. He was 72.
2/13/1991Muslim League leaves the UDF in Kerala.
8/22/1915Shambhu Mishra, Bengali actor, director and playwright, was born.
9/11/1913Waman Ganesh Talwalkar, Marathi journalist and story writer, was born.
2/2/1915Khushvant Singh, famous journalist, was born.
1/2/1994Landslide win for GNLF in the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council elections.
2/19/1995National Research Centre for Oil Palm(NRCOP), the only institute exclusively devoted to Oil Palm research in India, was established.
3/18/1896Pandit Kunjilal Dubey, freedom fighter, educationalist and politician, was born at Amgaon, District Narsinghpur.