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Historical Event on 1/20/1999
Renowned playwright Girish Karnad is selected for the 1998 Jnanpith Award.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/7/1998 | A. B. Vajpayee questions Pakistan's decision to hand over part of occupied Kashmir to China and says the area belongs to India. |
| 2/1/1948 | Marathi Sanshodhan Mandal' established. |
| 12/12/1721 | Balaji Bajirao (Nanasaheb Peshwa), third Peshwa, was born. |
| 5/9/1998 | Playback singer Talat Mehmood, 75, passed away in Mumbai. |
| 6/19/1996 | Kerala LDF govt. decides to reopen the ISRO espionage case, which was closed by the CBI. |
| 11/9/1967 | Bhartiya Kranti Dal, a new political party founded. |
| 8/28/1997 | Tiwari and Surinderjit Kaur set national records in hammer throw in Federation Cup Athletics. |
| 9/18/1879 | Welthy Housinger Fisher, an American adult educationist in India, was born. |
| 9/10/1920 | Subramhanyam Bharti, national poet in Tamil language, orator, author, editor, philosopher and revolutionary, passed away. |
| 1/31/1948 | Cities swept by riots in wake of Gandhi murder. |
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