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Historical Event on 5/20/1992
V. Prabhakaran, LTTE supremo, heads the list of 41 accused in the SIT chargesheet.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/3/1966 | Hurricane strikes Bengal, killing 1,000. |
| 11/10/1848 | Surendranath Banerji, popularly known as Rashtraguru, was born at Taltala, Calcutta. He passed his final ICS Examination in 1869 and joined in 1871, He was President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad. |
| 10/24/1904 | Lalchand Hirachand, famous industialist, was born. |
| 1/21/1963 | Acharaya Shivpujan Sahai, famous Hindi writer, poet and novelist, died. He was editor of Hindi journals like ""Marwari Sudhar"", ""Samanwaya"", ""Adarsh"" etc. He wrote 400 short stories and 67 biographies. His novel ""Dehati Dunia"" is acclaimed as first regional novel in Hindi. |
| 9/17/1960 | Agreement reached with Pakistan on the distribution of the River Indus and its tributaries. |
| 6/17/1824 | Bureau of Indian Affairs established. |
| 2/13/1970 | Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48 people at a village 80-km from New Delhi. |
| 8/9/1969 | Ochterlony Memorial in Calcutta was renamed as 'Shahid Minar'. |
| 11/16/1993 | Kashmir's 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants' surrender. |
| 8/27/1987 | B. Shankaranand appointed Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee to enquire into the Bofors gun deal. |
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