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Historical Event on 5/20/1996

CPI Leader Indrajit Gupta appointed pro-term speaker in the Lok Sahba.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/26/1995India decides to go ahead with Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme in the wake of US stand to supply $370 million arms package to Pakistan.
10/2/1942Menka Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested by the police when she and her friends were carrying out Gandhi Jayanti procession. She was tortured with cigar butts and the administration set her house on fire.
2/27/1996Manmohan Singh presents the vote-on-account as part of the interim budget in Lok Sabha for 1996-97 with a Rs. 5000 crore deficit.
6/15/1988Dalai Lama recoganised the rights of China in foreign affairs and Army Operations in Tibet region.
12/13/1978Sayyed Avid Husain, litterateur and Padmabhushan awardee, passed away.
5/1/1909Madame Bhikaji Cama secretly left London and went to France where she was wrote and spoke about the cruelty of Britishers.
7/2/1972Shimla Treaty' was singed between Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Pakistani counterpart Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
9/13/1991Churchil Alemao, former Goa CM, who was wanted under COFEPOSA, surrenders to the police in Panaji.
10/17/1970Anil Radhakrishna Kumble, cricketer (great Indian leg spinner since 1990), was born in Bangalore.
5/27/1930Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was arrested during Salt Movement.