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Events for February 20

20-February-1827	Mahatma Jyotirao Govindrao Phule, great social worker and founder of `Satyashodhak Samrajya', was born in Pune.
20-February-1846	Duleep Singh was recognised as the ruler. British captured Lahore.
20-February-1847	Turf Club of Royal Calcutta was established.
20-February-1863	Pandit A. R. Rajrajvarma, famous Malyalam poet, grammer expert and Sanskrit expert, was born.
20-February-1868	Sisir Kumar, Basanta Kumar and Hemanta Kumar, three brothers, first published the 'Amrita Bazar Partika', a weekly issue in Bengali.
20-February-1928	Abaji Narayan Pednekar, children's story writer, was born.
20-February-1929	K. B. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 8 tests from 1976-84, was born at Tamil Nadu.
20-February-1947	British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced in the House of Commons, London, that Britain will release India before June 1948 and for this purpose Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed to work as the new Viceroy of India.
20-February-1950	Sarat Chandra Bose, freedom fighter, journalist, leader and elder brother of Subhashchandra Bose, passed away.
20-February-1953	India opens $ 140 mil. power system modeled after TVA.
20-February-1968	Dr Prafulla Kumar Sen and others performed the first ever heart transplantion in Asia. The operation was performed by the Indian surgeons at K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay.
20-February-1968	First Edition of 'Amrit Bazar Patrika' weekly was published in Bengali language.
20-February-1976	Production of Crude Oil started from offshore Bombay High near Mumbai.
20-February-1982	The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members of Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was finally shifted to College of Materials Management Jabalpur. The original memorial was erected on 15 Apr 1946 from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.
20-February-1985	Bhawani Prasad Mishra, progressive Hindi poet, passed away. His most famous poem is ""Main Geet Bechtaa Hu
20-February-1987	Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh becomes the 23rd and 24th states of Indian Union.
20-February-1987	Lok Dal splits over leadership issue.
20-February-1992	Pandit Gauri Shankar, famous dance director in Hindi films, passed away.
20-February-1993	Government decides to form an Autonomous Council for the tribals within Assam to solve Bodo issue.
20-February-1994	Government makes the first appointment under 27\% reservation for Other Backward Classes in Central Services and Public Sector Undertaking.
20-February-1997	RBI relaxes capital adequacy norms for commercial banks.
20-February-1999	India and Pakistan signed a formal agreement for launching the Delhi-Lahore bus service.
20-February-1999	Mr. Vajpayee travels to Lahore on the inaugural run of the bus between New Delhi and Lahore.
20-February-2000	India-born Mr. Ujjal Dosanjh (52), leader of New Democratic Party, sworn in Canada's first Indo-Canadian Premier of British Columbia.
20-February-2000	Supreme Court stays the Karnataka High Court's order quashing charges framed against the former Chief Minister, Mr. S. Bangarappa, and directs the trial court to proceed in the corruption case.