Historical events in Indian and world history on February 20.
1846 : British captured Lahore.
1847: Royal Calcutta Turf Club was established.
1921: The Nankana massacre (or Saka Nankana) took place in Nankana Sahib gurdwara on this day, at that time a part of the British India but today in modern-day Pakistan.
1947: British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced that Britain would leave India by June 1948.
1947: Earl Mountbatten of Burma appointed as last viceroy of India to oversee the move to independence.
1968: First-time heart transplant was done at K E M Hospital, Mumbai. Dr. P K Sen performed this complex surgery.
1976: Bombay High Field commenced the production of crude oil for commercial use.
1987: Mizoram became the 23rd state of India.
2014: Telangana became the 29th state of India.
Famous birthdays and birth anniversaries– February 20.
1844: Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, an Austrian physicist, and philosopher.
1900: Rattanbai Jinnah, the wife of Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
1901: Mohamed Naguib, an Egyptian politician and the first President and Prime Minister of Egypt.
1917: Kaif Bhopali, an Indian Urdu poet and lyricist.
1956: Annu Kapoor, an Indian film actor and television presenter.
1988: Rihanna, a Barbadian singer, actress, and businesswoman.
Death anniversaries of famous people – February 20
1895: Frederick Douglass, an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
1950: Sarat Chandra Bose, an Indian barrister, and independence activist.
1960: Kothainayaki Ammal, a Tamil writer, novelist, and journalist.
1993: Ferruccio Lamborghini, an Italian industrialist. He created an Automobile Lamborghini.
2015: Govind Pansare, a left-wing Indian politician of the Communist Party of India.
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