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Historical Event on 8/20/1986

A restructured 20-point programme announced.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/29/1984Troops were sent to Hyderabad to quell communal riots.
5/19/1990S. R. Bommai unanimously elected President of JD.
4/1/1912The imperial capital of India was moved from Calcutta to Old New Delhi and the Province of Delhi was declared by a proclamation.
7/4/2000Volvo's Environmental Prize went to Prof. Amulya K. N. Reddy of India and three others for their work on ''How the world's energy resources can be made to suffice as the population grows''.
11/25/1992Mamata Banerjee, Union Minister of State for Sports, resigns to fight Bengal CPM.
9/21/1933Annie Besant, great social worker and founder of Home Rule Movement, passed away.
5/9/1907Two thousand dacoits riot in eastern Bengal.
4/1/1979Central Institute of Fisheries Education came under the Administrative Control of Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
4/1/1979Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2).
2/16/1986The Silver Jubilee of I.N.S.- Vikrant, India's only aircraft carrier, fails.