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Historical Event on 1/20/1897

Gandhiji declines to prosecute assailants.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/23/2000Ram Jethmalani, Union Law Minister, quits the Cabinet after the Prime Minister shows him the door following the outbursts against the Chief Justice of India, Dr. A. S. Anand.
2/13/1719Jahandar Shah was strangled to death and the Sayyid brothers were killed soon after.
12/11/1996T. N. Seshan retires. M. S. Gill becomes the new election Chief Election Commissioner.
9/21/1895Annapurnanand, great writer, was born.
6/18/1988V.P.Singh defeats Congress rival Sunil Shastri in Allahabad Lok Sabha election.
6/2/1992The government accepts all the 15 recommendations of the Janakiraman Committee which unearthed massive collusion of banks in the security scam.
7/5/1968Naval Submarine wing in Indian Naval Force came into existence with the arrival of the first submarine from the Soviet Union.
12/26/1904First cross-country motor car race inaugurated between Dehli and Bombay started its rally. It was organised by Motor Union of Western India.
1/19/1966Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs.
7/29/1927Madhavsingh Solanki, one of the leaders in Gujarat, was born.