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Historical Event on 11/20/1907

Railroad workers strike in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/20/1907Saint Visoba Khechar, was the yogi-guru of the Varkari poet-saint Namdev of Maharashtra, took Samadhi.
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12/14/199410 IAF personnel of the first batch were reinducted and the last batch left on 20th Dec 94. Cpl Nasir was left as a lying casualty due to injuries sustained in the RPG explosion.
10/26/1928R.S.Das, a law member of the Viceroy's council, died in Calcutta.
5/18/1998India may take the US to WTO.
9/24/1629Jacques Specx appointed Governor General of Dutch-Indies.
6/1/1790A treaty was signed between Marathas, Britishers and Nizam.
6/9/1964Lal Bahadur Shastri became the second Prime Minister of India when the country was shocked of Jawaharlal Nehru's death and Indo-China war. Shastri gave the quotation ""Jai Jawan Jai Kisan"" which motivated the war-affected Indians to boost their morale. He remained in this office till he died on January 11, 1966 at Taskent. In his cabinet, Indira Gandhi served as Minister of Information and Broadcasting.
1/16/1924In a tragic ship wreck, Kumaran Asan, famous Malayalam poet & eminent social worker, died.
9/29/1977India and Bangladesh signed settlement for distributing Ganga river water.