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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
10/3/1880Sakuntal Sangeet held in Anandodbhav Auditorium in Pune. Annasaheb Kirloskar presented the first musical play in Marathi.
8/13/1993All the TDP MLAs suspended from Andhra Pradesh Assembly.
11/14/1957Children's Day.
6/9/1986ICMR set up a network of Reference/Surveillance Centres for AIDS in almost all states of India.
3/28/1998The BJP-led alliance survived its first test of trust with the support of Chandrababu Naidu's Telgu Desam Party. Jayalalitha continues to call the shots.
4/5/1993G. V. Iyer's Sanskrit film 'Bhagavad Geeta was adjudged the best film at the National Film Awards.
4/18/1993BJP issues white paper on Ayodhya.
10/6/1963Baba Kharak Singh, freedom fighter and grand old man of Punjab, died.
3/12/1913Yashvantrao Balvantrao Chavan, first Chief Minister of Maharashtra, was born.
4/6/1980Janata Party splits again; members with RSS links form the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). A. B. Vajpayee becomes its first President.