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Historical Event on 3/20/1992
Satyajit Ray, veteran film producer and director, was presented the 'Bharat Ratna' Award at Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/16/1980 | Delhi beat Bombay by 240 runs to win Ranji Trophy final. |
| 1/12/1994 | S. S. Nadkarni, Chairman of National Stock Exchange, appointed SEBI Chairman. |
| 9/18/1996 | Suresh Mehta ministry wins the confidence vote in Gujarat . |
| 5/13/2000 | Lara Dutta (21), who said beauty pageants give women a platform to ''voice our choices and opinions'' is named Miss Universe 2000 in the Cyprus capital Nicosia. |
| 6/17/1947 | Burma was adopted as republic by constitution assembly. |
| 7/31/1997 | Election Commission agrees to grant national party status to Bahujan Samaj Party but asks it to give up its election symbol--elephant. |
| 5/7/1994 | Dr. S.P. Tripathy, Director-General of ICMR, retired after 32 years of distinguished service in the ICMR, and Dr. G.V. Satyavati took over as the new Director-General of ICMR in July 1994. She became the first woman scientist in the country to head not only ICMR but any Research agency in independent India. |
| 3/23/1898 | Nalinibala Devi, Assamia poet, was born. |
| 10/5/1890 | Kishorlal Ghanshyamlal Mashruwala, great thinker and philosopher of Gandhi era, was born. |
| 1/5/1952 | John Hope Victor Alexander, Viceroy of India (1936-43), died at the age of 64. |
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