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Historical Event on 1/20/1948

1. Bomb exploded near Birla House during a prayer meeting of Gandhi. 2. Three member UN Commission for investigation/mediation on Kashmir. 3. K.M. Cariappa succeeded Lieutenant General D. Rissell as the Army Commander, Delhi and East Punjab and was responsible for conducting the operation in Kashmir.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/19/1945Gandhiji lays foundation stone of C. F. Andrews' Memorial Hospital at Santiniketan.
10/9/1970Production of Uranium 233 started at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Bombay.
11/21/199227 killed in a bomb blast engineered by Bodo extremists in a bus in Assam.
1/16/1992Prices of steel and iron decontrolled.
4/3/1987S.H. Vatsyayan passed away.
8/15/1925Sadashiv Pandurang Jantre, great freedom fighter and social worker, was born .
9/27/1989The second test launching of India's surface-to-surface missile, 'Prithvi', from Sri Harikota was successful.
2/24/1996S. Korean President Kim Young Sam visits India.
2/6/1949India to nationalize the estate of Nizam, the world's richest man, from Hyderabad.
4/25/1998India protests against Pakistan raising the Kashmir issue at the first SAARC Information Ministers conference in Dhaka.