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Historical Event on 8/20/1991
Sivarasan and Subha, the main suspects in Rajiv Gandhi case, commit suicide in Bangalore.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/22/1887 | Srinivas Ramanujam, India's greatest mathematician, was born at Erode in Tamil Nadu. |
| 11/11/1996 | A.P. cyclone toll may cross 2,500. |
| 6/23/1985 | Air India Jumbo Jet Boeing 747 'Kanishka' which was travelling to Mumbai from Montreal crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after explosion near Ireland. 329 people on board died. |
| 10/28/1981 | Underground Metro Train Compartments were tested on trial basis at Calcutta. |
| 8/10/1942 | Manju Bala Patil was shot on the road at Mumbai by the British Police. |
| 4/4/1889 | Makhanlal Chaturvedi, famous Hindi poet, writer, Hindi litterateur and President of All India, was born in Babai village, Madhya Pradesh. |
| 5/2/1996 | Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983. |
| 1/16/1818 | The Rana of Udaipur signed a treaty with the British to protect Mewad. |
| 1/31/1992 | LTTE Supremo, V. Prabhakaran, declared offender in Rajiv Gandhi murder case and ordered to surrender by a Madras court. |
| 1/10/1993 | India asks Pakistan to reduce its diplomatic strength by 40. |
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