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Historical Event on 8/20/1997

Lata Mangeshkar receives the Fifth Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award from the President.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/22/1996Saurav Ganguly scores 131 at Lord's on Test debut.
7/7/1937Jagdish Prasad Goenka, great industrialist, was born in Calcutta.
9/12/1990Konkan Railway project formally launched with the opening of a project office in Ratnagiri in Maharashtra State.
12/13/1978Sayyed Avid Husain, litterateur and Padmabhushan awardee, passed away.
11/3/1933Amartya Kumar Sen, economist, was born at Santiniketan (Bangal).
12/27/1901Gandhiji moves resolution on South Africa at Congress.
10/18/1995Punjab CM Harcharan Singh Brar inducts All India Youth Congress President Maninderjit Singh Bitta in to the cabinet.
7/17/1979Jagjivan Ram elected Janata parliamentary party leader. Charan Singh is PM heading Janatha (S)-Congress coalition and Jagjivan Ram is leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha.
4/11/1999Chetan Baboor and Poulomi Ghatak won the men's and women's titles resp. in the India Cup table tennis in Mumbai.
3/21/1977Internal Emergency, promulgated on June 25, 1975, withdrawn by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.