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Historical Event on 2/20/1947

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.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/10/1886Rameshwari Nehru, social worker and freedom fighter, was born at Lahore.
3/22/1739Nadir Shah entered Delhi. He gave the signal to one of his soldiers from Sunheri mosque.
2/17/1994Gopikrishna, internationaly famed 'Kathtak' exponent, died at the age of 61 years.
7/23/1923Navinchandra Chimanlal Pandya, great educationist, was born at Prantij, Ahmedabad.
11/2/1972ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India.
6/9/1991A question paper was leaked due to which the Civil Services preliminary examination was cancelled.
11/27/1972Bhutto reports the release of 616 Indian prisoners captured in the Indian-Pakistani dispute at Pakistan.
3/26/1992Rs. 245 crore relief in customs, excise duties announced.
12/10/1905Robert Koch received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on Tuberculosis.
9/9/1999Mahesh Bhupathi and Ai Sugiyama won the mixed doubles title in the U.S. Open.