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Historical Event on 8/20/1997
Arun Gawli, Mumbai underworld don, arrested for his alleged involvement in the killing of a builder.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/14/1856 | Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, great social worker, was born. |
| 1/14/1994 | C. V. Waran, veteran freedom fighter and social worker, passed away. |
| 1/4/1932 | Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants. |
| 11/8/1988 | At 0910 hrs, One - O - Four's moments of glory were frozen for eternity when it received the coveted colours from the then President of Indian R Venkatraman. |
| 2/12/1993 | The baggage rules relaxed further. |
| 2/1/1944 | Arun Tikekar, editor and writer, was born. |
| 2/25/1894 | Meher Baba (1894-1969) of Poona, Indian saint of Persian origin and gifted with psychic powers of prediction, was born. The mystical teachings of this silent sage stressed love, self-inquiry and God consciousness. |
| 2/3/1998 | The BJP releases its election manifesto promising to make India a nuclear state; build a Ram temple at Ayodha and work for a uniform civil code. |
| 8/21/1988 | 500 killed near the Nepal border in an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale. |
| 1/12/1994 | S. S. Nadkarni, Chairman of National Stock Exchange, appointed SEBI Chairman. |
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