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History Of Day

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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