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Historical Event on 6/20/1985
The Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian decoration, was presented to Mother Teresa by President Ronald Reagan.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/10/1937 | Anant Bhave, famous Marathi litterateur and news announcer on Doordarshan, was born. |
| 8/7/1982 | Krishnakanta Radhakant Handique, linguist, educationist, Sanskrit scholar, principal of J.B. College and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away. He also authored the learned works 'Naisadhacarita', 'Yasastilaka and Indian Culture' etc. His original treatise written in Sanskrit by Somaveda in the 10th century is an encyclopedic work dealing with Jainism and Indian thoughts and culture. |
| 11/20/1969 | The Union Home Ministry decides to reserve posts for SC\STs in the public sector undertakings. |
| 3/9/1836 | Navalram Lakshmiram Pandya, famous writer and Gujrati critic , was born. |
| 8/3/1998 | 35 persons were killed as Govind Towers at Bandra in Mumbai collapsed. |
| 7/1/1982 | MGR inaugurates Tamil Nadu's noon meal programme for poor children. |
| 1/3/1975 | Lalit Narayan Mishra, great freedom fighter, politician, leader, member of the Lok Sabha and Minister of Railways, died at a Railway Hospital in Danapur due to a bomb blast at Samastipur Railway Station a day earlier. |
| 11/21/1992 | 27 killed in a bomb blast engineered by Bodo extremists in a bus in Assam. |
| 12/12/1930 | Babu Genu sacrificed his life to stage the boycott of foreign goods. |
| 12/5/1991 | Sarkaria report accepted. |
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