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Historical Event on 2/20/1953
India opens $ 140 mil. power system modeled after TVA.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/5/1957 | Nehru becomes the first recipient of the key of Hiroshima Peace City. |
| 5/25/1979 | Commercial Unity Day started. |
| 8/2/1958 | Arshad Ayub, cricketer (Indian off-spinner in 13 Tests between 1987-89), was born in Hydrabad. |
| 12/30/1879 | Shri Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950), modern Hindu Advaita renaissance saint of Maharshi Research Institute, philosopher and yogi, was born in Tiruchuzhi near Madurai in Tamil Nadu. |
| 3/4/1925 | Jyotirindranath Tagore, great Bengali litterateur and poet, passed away. |
| 5/29/1936 | Gandhi's eldest son creates a controversy as he converts to the Muslim faith. |
| 1/9/1922 | Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley. |
| 4/28/1996 | EC orders re-polling in 69 booths in four states. |
| 2/12/1993 | Kapil Dev crosses 400 wickets and 5000 runs in test cricket. |
| 12/27/1929 | Jawaharlal Nehru hoists the national flag at the All India National Congress session held in Lahore. They resolved for ""Purna Swaraj"" (complete independence) on the instance of Gandhiji, the Viceroy of India that time was Lord Irwin. |
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