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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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3/22/1947India's Last Viceroy Lord Louise Mountbatten came to India.
2/27/1854Lord Dalhousie captured Jhansi under the East India Company.
10/17/1999Chiranjeev Milkha Singh won the Lexus International Golf tournament in Bangkok.
8/30/1993LPG, Petrol dealers get higher commission.
5/18/1974First underground Atomic device explosion for India was carried out successfully near Pokhran in Rajasthan (Thar Desert) at 8:05 a.m. This event made India as the 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb.
1/20/1939Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe, great Indian astronomer, was born.
9/10/1858Manilal Nathubhai Dwivedi, great author and father of modern Gujarati poems, was born.
2/2/1788Pitt's Regulatory Act was was introduced to modify the Indian Administration and put further controls on Government of India after the 1784 Bill.
8/5/1999The Global Peace March demands demilitarisation of the entire planet.
1/10/1616Sir Thomas Row, first English Ambassador, submitted his identification to Emperor Jahangir at Ajmer.