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Historical Event on 2/20/1847

Turf Club of Royal Calcutta was established.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/25/1979Commercial Unity Day started.
2/16/1911Bhalchandra Gopal Bapat, newspaper editor and educationalist, was born.
11/14/1993Dr. Manibhai Desai, great Gandhian and social worker, passed away.
3/30/1929Weekly postal service across 5,000-miles by aeroplane started between England and India serving India, Egypt, Palestine and Iraq in London.
1/22/1990The International Literacy Campaign was launced in the country by the Prime Minister at a national function held at New Delhi. (8-9-90).
7/31/1992Sitar maestro Pt. Ravishankar wins the Magsaysay Award.
12/6/1962India closes its consulates in Communist China.
1/14/1982First Antarctic Expedition on December 1981-Jan 1982; group of 21 Indian scientists team led by S. Z. Qasim reached Antarctica successfully.
7/22/19961996-97 budget presented to Parliament by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram.
10/2/1998Santanu Deb Barma of Tripura was chosen for Kabir Puraskar for her role in preventing violence and riots in some areas of the state in 1997.