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Historical Event on 8/20/1996

India defeat Pakistan in Under-15 World Challenge Final at Lord's, England.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/29/1961New All India Muslim League was established.
1/1/1664Shivaji marched towards Surat.
6/8/1915P.C.Kuttikrishnan 'Urub', Malyalam story writer and novelist, was born.
2/16/1993Dr. U.R. Ananta Murthy elected President of the Kendra Sahitya Academy.
2/22/1944Kasturba Gandhi passed away in British imprisonment in Aga Khan Palace at Pune.
4/24/1996SC holds that bank managers acting beyond their authority in allowing overdrafts and passing cheques would be amounted to committing misconduct.
11/21/1947First postal stamp of indepedent India of three and half annas denomination was started. Major General Cariappa took over from Lieutenant General Sir Francies Tulker as the Army Commander, Eastern Command, in the rank of Lieutenant General.
9/10/1920Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal.
8/20/1885First meeting of the Indian National Congress held.
9/21/1857Bahadurshah Jafar - II surrendered against the British troops.