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Historical Event on 3/20/1920

Usha Mehta, freedom fighter, was born at Satara. Her name is closely attached with freedom movement via Bombay Radio, as she and Babubhai Prasad and Vitthalbhai Zaveri founded this Radio and started motivating people of India with their telecasts.

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11/10/1922S. K. Raghunath Rao, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1960-67, was born in Karnataka.
2/13/1991Muslim League leaves the UDF in Kerala.
11/29/1953Benegal Narsing Rau, foremost Indian Jurist of his time, passed away at Zurich. He performed some very prominent duties towards the nation. He was Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and a judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice at Hague.
1/6/1976Baliram Bhagat elected Lok Sabha Speaker.
11/23/1991India decides to upgrade its ties with the Soviet Republics.
6/9/1992LDF wrests Narakal while the UDF retains the Tanur assembly seat in Kerala.
5/21/1991Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated by human bomb explosion plotted by LTTE at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu, 40 km from Madras, at 10.20 P.M.
7/21/1977K.S. Hegde elected Lok Sabha Speaker.
1/8/1995ONGC's oil rig blow out at Pasalapudi site in Andhra Pradesh.
9/30/1997Gen. V. P. Malik takes over from Gen. Shankar Roychowdhury as Chief of Army Staff.