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Historical Event on 8/20/1969

Varahagiri Venkata Giri was elected President and G. S. Pathak as Vice President of India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/31/2000All seven accused in the Jain hawala case discharged.
12/21/1903Bhalchandra Digambar Garware, famous industrailist, was born.
12/3/1956Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story writer, passed away.
1/16/1818The Rana of Udaipur signed a treaty with the British to protect Mewad.
4/1/1855Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's first Bengali primer 'Varnaparichay' was published.
2/1/1827Gordon's Esplanade building was established in Calcutta's Bengal Club.
11/29/1961First cosmonaut of the world, Yuri Gagarin of Russia, came to India.
9/10/1999Sonia Gandhi files her nomination papers for the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency.
5/3/1997Vijay Pradhan, additional senior counsel for Srikrishna Commission probing 1992-93 riots in Mumbai, resigns. He is not allowed to cross-examine Chief Minister Manohar Joshi.
9/12/1905Anglo-Japanese treaty provides for Japan to help safeguard India at London.