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Historical Event on 7/20/1955

Suez Canal nationalised by Gamal Abdul Nassar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/27/1925Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh was established.
8/16/1974A.Shankar was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 31st March 1977.
4/8/1992Congress (I) government led by Rajkumar Dorendra Singh sworn in in Manipur.
11/25/1948National Cadet Corps was first established.
4/2/1877Narottam Morarjee, great social reformer and the architect of the modern Indian Shipping, was born at Porbandar.
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
5/12/1915Rash Behari Bose, revolutionary leader, left India by boarding a Japanese steamer ''Sanuki Maru'' under assumed name of P. N. Tagore to dodge the British forces.
3/16/1939Subroto Mukherjee became the first Indian Officer to command a squadron when he took over No.1.
9/9/1952Kishorlal Ghanshamlal Mashruwala, great thinker and philosopher of Gandhi era, passed away.
6/17/1917Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba started living at Hriday Kunj in Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad.