Today Importance - 20th January
20-Jan-1684
Treaty between the Marathas and the Portuguese.
20-Jan-1817
Ram Mohan Roy started the Hindu College in Calcutta with the help of Justice H. East David Hare. Later the name of this college was changed to Presidency College.
20-Jan-1871
The famous Indian industrialist Sir Ratanji Jamshedji Tata was born.
20-Jan-1879
Birth of famous Assamese nature poet Raghunath Chowdhury.
20-Jan-1897
Gandhi refused to prosecute the attackers.
20-Jan-1898
Krishnarao Ganeshpant Phulnabrikar (Master Krishnarao), noted singer, actor and music director, is born.
20-Jan-1931
Saroj Kumari, a feature film produced by Mahaveer Photoplace and Theaters Limited, Secunderabad, was banned on January 20 as 'abhorrent' and 'seditious'.
20-Jan-1939
The great Indian astronomer Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe was born.
20-Jan-1948
1. A bomb exploded near Birla House during Gandhi's prayer meeting. 2. Three-member United Nations Commission of Inquiry/Mediation on Kashmir. 3. K.M. Cariappa as the army commander of Delhi and East Punjab Lt. Gen. D. Succeeded Rissel and was responsible for conducting operations in Kashmir.
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