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Historical Event on 8/20/1933
Mahatma Gandhi is rushed to the hospital on the fourth day of his latest fast.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/8/1965 | British Indian Ocean Territory formed. |
| 2/6/1932 | Dorabji Jamshetji Tata, great industrialist, passed away. |
| 1/18/1913 | Gandhiji refers in ''Indian Opinion'' the possibility of return home to India by mid-year. |
| 1/27/1995 | K.V. Krishna Rao, J&K Governor, gets another term. |
| 12/24/1997 | Congress(I) splits in Bihar with Dr. Jagannath Mishra and Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav floating iits regional outfit, ""Bihar Jan Congress |
| 2/7/1985 | Uday Merchant, cricketer (brother of Vijay, prolific scorer), passed away. |
| 5/1/1948 | Baroda State merged into Bombay Province. |
| 5/18/1999 | R. B. Sapre, India's first national chess champion, died in Mumbai. |
| 6/11/1931 | Purushottam Vishnu Behre, great editor, story and novel writer, was born. |
| 8/28/1906 | Chintamani Govind (Mama Pendse), great actor, was born. |
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