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Historical Event on 6/20/1992
The JD and the NF choose former Lok Sabha Dy Speaker Prof. G. G. Swell as the Presidential candidate.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/23/1664 | Shahaji Raje died in an accident. |
| 8/18/1951 | Indian Institute of Technology was opened in Kharagpur, West Bengal. |
| 1/8/1884 | Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society. |
| 7/1/1964 | Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) was established. |
| 10/21/1999 | Madhavrao Scindia becomes the Deputy Leader of Congress (I) in the Lok Sabha. |
| 8/1/1996 | Madhu Dandavate is made Dy. Chairman, Planning Commission. |
| 5/5/1992 | Prithvi, India's medium range surface-to-surface missile, successfully launched. |
| 4/8/1998 | Sedapatti R. Muthiah resigns as the Union Surface Transport Minister at the behest of his party supremo Jayalalitha. He is involved in court cases. |
| 5/14/1923 | Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar, one of the founder members of Indian Congress and social reformer, passed away. |
| 12/31/1996 | Gold import policy liberalised. |
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