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Historical Event on 5/20/1915
Gandhiji founded Satyagraha Ashram (later known as Sabarmati Ashram after the name of the river) at Ahmedabad.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/12/1923 | Meera Mukherjee, great artist, was born. |
| 3/31/1986 | Bombay Telephone Nigam renamed as Mahanagar Telephone Nigam. |
| 10/1/1990 | Constitution's 75th amendment bill to extend President's rule in Punjab for another six months fails through the first stage in Lok Sabha for want of a simple majority. |
| 2/19/1995 | National Research Centre for Oil Palm(NRCOP), the only institute exclusively devoted to Oil Palm research in India, was established. |
| 4/20/1973 | Rioting over food shortages ends after three days in Nagpur. |
| 7/21/1911 | Umashankar Jethalal Joshi, famous Gujarati poet, Hindi writer and educationist, was born at Bamna in Gujarat. |
| 7/23/1988 | Jahangir Khan, cricketer (4 Tests for India 1932-36), died. |
| 9/11/1950 | Sorabjee Harmasji Colah, cricketer (69 runs in India's first 2 tests 1932-33), passed away. |
| 7/31/1993 | Zafar Saifullah was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-07-1994. |
| 12/19/1978 | The Lok Sabha expels Indira Gandhi from the House and sentences her to imprisonment for a term lasting its prorogation. She was released from jail on December 26. |
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