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Historical Event on 5/20/1957

Tanguturi Prakasam, great lawyer, journalist, nationalist, politician, social reformer, leader and former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, passed away at Hyderabad.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/19/1938Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, great Indian space scientist and mathematician, was born at Kolhapur, Maharashtra.
5/29/1965Indian Everest team sets a world record by climbing the Everest for the fourth time.
7/18/1990Following the end of six months Governor's rule, President's rule imposed in J&K.
10/26/1943Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta.
8/9/1893Shivpujan Sahai, famous Hindi story writer and novelist, was born at Bihar in a middle class family.
11/5/1928R. V. S. Perishastri, former Chief Election Commissioner of India, was born.
10/31/1999Dr. S. S. Badrinath gets Dhanvantari Award.
7/3/1979Construction of the main second Howrah Bridge (Vidyasagar Setu) started.
4/24/1944Shivprasad Gupta, philanthropist, freedom fighter and educationist, passed away.
12/11/1926Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding