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Historical Event on 11/20/1998
Dr. Mohammed Yunus, Chairman of the Grameen Bank of Dhaka, is selected for the 1998 Indira Gandhi prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/10/2000 | Marat Safin wins the men's singles in the US open championship. |
| 2/25/2000 | Justice M. Srinivasan (63), Supreme Court Judge at the Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, died after prolonged illness. |
| 5/26/1999 | IRS-P4(OCEANSAT) with an Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) and a Multi-frequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer (MSMR) and two small satellites (KITSAT of Korea and TUBSAT of Germany) launched by PSLV-C2. |
| 2/8/1785 | Warren Hastings, British Viceroy, left India. |
| 2/8/1785 | Babur Shah was declared as the Emperor of Dehli. |
| 11/24/1919 | Gandhiji presides over All-India Khilafat conference at Delhi. |
| 10/11/1927 | Sarojini Regani, great journalist, was born at Secunderabad. |
| 5/14/1914 | Ekanath Dattatreya Kulkarni, educationist and writer, was born at Bhaloni, Tal Pandharpur. |
| 8/29/1928 | Hiralal Ghisulal Gaikwad, cricket all-rounder who played the only test vs Pakistan, was born in Nagpur. |
| 8/12/1997 | Bar Council of India debars full-time law teachers from practising as lawyers. |
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