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Historical Event on 1/20/1994
Chinese film 'Farewell, My Concubine' and Adoor Gopalakrishnan's 'Vidheyan' adjudged best Foreign and Indian films in the 25th International Film Festival at Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/3/1999 | Harkishan Singh Surjeet donates property share to his party CPI(M). |
| 12/24/1880 | Pattabhi Sitaramayya, politician and president of Indian National Congress, was born in Andhra Pradesh. |
| 1/8/1908 | Mary Nadia Wadia (Fearless Nadia), great actress, was born. |
| 8/20/1955 | Jawaharlal Nehru breaks off relations with the Portuguese after the invasion of Goa by Indian nationalists. |
| 1/15/1998 | Gulzari Lal Nanda, Gandhian freedom fighter and twice acting Prime Minister in 1964 and 1966, died in Ahmedabad at the age of 100 years. |
| 6/18/1956 | New Hindu Succession Act was passed. |
| 11/21/1993 | India and South Africa sign a historic pact on re-establishing diplomatic and consular relations after a gap of 50 years. |
| 8/15/1997 | K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta. |
| 9/20/1942 | Kanak Lata Barua, a yound child who tried to host the national flag at Goupur police station in Assam with the help of 500 people, was shot by the police station incharge. |
| 7/27/1889 | Branch of Indian National Congress, 'British India Committee' , was established under the leadership of Dadabhai Navroji. |
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