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Historical Event on 5/20/1987

G. G. Jadhav `Pudhari', editor of daily newspaper, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/11/1997Jaspal Rana and J. Abhijit in the men's section and Nisha Millet in the women's section adjudged best sports persons of the National Games.
4/22/1993Air India engineers call off their 56-day-old strike.
11/7/1888Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, was born in Tiruchirapalli, South India. His work was influential in the growth of science in India. He was the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics for the 1928 discovery now called 'Raman scattering'--a change in frequency observed when light is scattered in a transparent material. When monochromatic or laser light is passed through a transparent gas, liquid, or solid and is observed with the spectroscope, the normal spectral line has associated with it lines of longer and of shorter wavelength called the Raman spectrum. Thus the Raman effect is applied in spectrographic chemical analysis and in the determination of molecular structure.
11/14/1955Employees' State Insurance Corporation was inaugurated by the President.
8/11/1908Khudiram Bose was hanged on this day in Central Jail at Mujaffarpur, Bihar at the age of 19 years. He along with Prafulla Chaki had planned to bomb the carriage supposed to be carrying Kingsford, unfortunately he was betrayed and was caught and finally was sentenced to death and hanged. This day is observed as ""Martyr's Day"" in memory of the great freedom fighter. Even today the soul stirring songs composed in his honour are sung by Bengali folk-singers.
2/1/1988The first Congress of the Indian Dental Association begins. (28-1-88).
7/31/1993Zafar Saifullah was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-07-1994.
7/27/1994Parliament votes to ban tests for determining the sex of an unborn child, as these tests have resulted in thousands of aborted female fetuses.
7/4/1986Sunil Gavaskar celebrated his 115th Test in cricket at Edgbaston.
9/29/1994Gulf nations suspend Indian flights on account of plague epidemic.