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Historical Event on 4/20/1991

Ganesh Sadashiv Bhat, famous Marathi film director and President's Award winner of 1963, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/15/1997Magsaysay award winning litterateur Mahasweta Devi, Sitar maestro Annapurna Devi and Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra honoured with 'Desikottam' by Visva Bharati University.
12/1/1989V. P. Singh is named the new prime minister.
2/21/1991The President accepts the resignation of 5 cabinet members who were disqualified by the Speaker as per the anti-defection law.
6/14/1947Congress Working Committee met at New Delhi to draft the resolution to be placed before All India Congress Committee on the acceptance of Mountbatten plan for the partition of India.
1/7/1685Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company, was born.
11/12/1959Keshavrao Marutirao Jedhe, great leader of Harijans and farmers, passed away.
4/26/1995Indian Newspaper Society (INS) calls off stir plans following Government conceding a major demand of the newspaper industry by putting newsprint on the Open General Licence (OGL) and abolish the condition requiring newspapers to buy two tonnes of indigenous newsprint in order to import one tonne.
6/17/1993K. D. Dharmadhikari (Nana), veteran freedom fighter, died.
9/15/1940Anil Yashwant Tipnis, Air Chief Marshal, was born.
6/26/1992The Tin Bigha corridor leased to Bangladesh as per the Indo-Bangladesh agreement.