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Historical Event on 7/20/1986

India withdraws from Edinburgh Commonwealth Games.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/26/1946V. K. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-till date, was born at Hyderabad. He has become one of the first Indian Test umpires to be invited to umpire in a foreign country along with P. D. Reporter.
4/6/1934Nilkanth Yashwant Khadilkar, editor of Marathi daily newspaper, was born.
3/2/1990DMK Front to form government in Pondicherry and Congress (I) in Maharashtra.
3/28/2000Delhi police arrest Shoaib Ilyasi, producer of the crime serial ''India's Most Wanted'' for the death of his wife Anju on January 10.
12/1/2000An armed intruder snipes at naval commando Satvir Singh at the official residence of the Navy Chief Admiral Sushil Kumar in the high- security Rajaji Marg area in New Delhi. The Navy sets up an enquiry board to probe the incident.
9/21/1999Mr. A. C. Muthiah was elected president and Kapil Dev the senior coach at the Board of Control of Cricket in India AGM in Jaipur.
8/5/1975The RSS, Anand Marg, Jamat-i-Islami, and 23 other organisations were banned. Parliament approved Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act (COFEPOSA). Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) approved by the Parliament.
8/5/1975Sikh Guru Har Govindji, the sixth sikh guru, was born. He fashioned a military role for the Sikhs.
4/3/1912M. Varadarajan, educationist and author, was born at Tirupattur.
9/14/1803Lord Lake was captured Delhi.