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Historical Event on 2/20/1868
Sisir Kumar, Basanta Kumar and Hemanta Kumar, three brothers, first published the 'Amrita Bazar Partika', a weekly issue in Bengali.
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| 3/8/1998 | Indian Airlines operates two international flights with all women crew. |
| 1/25/1988 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Marudu Gopalan Ramachandran, MGR (Posthumous) (1917-1987). |
| 1/30/1949 | Night Airmail Services was inaugurated. |
| 6/5/1997 | Brahmapuram diesel power project, KSEB's first thermal power project, situated 25 km from Kochi, Kerala commissioned. |
| 7/23/1993 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2B), second satellite in the INSAT-2 series, was launched. This is more operational multi-purpose communication and enhanced meteorology satellite. It is still in service. It was aunched by European Ariane launch vehicle. |
| 1/15/1998 | Binda Prasad Kashyap, 73, CPI leader, passed away in Nagpur. |
| 3/22/1709 | It is assumed that Goswami Tulsidas started writing his great epic 'Ramcharitmanas' in Samvat 1631. |
| 3/4/1951 | Eleven countries and 489 male and female athletes participated in the first Asian Games started at National Stadium in New Delhi. |
| 8/4/1928 | Udham Singh, Indian field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64), was born. |
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