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Historical Event on 6/20/1948

Lord Mountbatten resigns as the Governor General of Indian Union.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/25/2000P.T. Usha,Star Indian athlete, announces retirement from International athletics at a press conference in New Delhi.
5/2/1954Ceylon Asian conference ends with plea for peace in Indo-China, end of atomic tests and condemnation of colonialism.
8/5/1921Malhi Govind, modern Sindhi novelist, was born.
8/20/1933Mahatma Gandhi is rushed to the hospital on the fourth day of his latest fast.
2/1/2000The Centre decides to place almost all items under the automatic approval route for foreign direct investment and NRI and OCB investments.
7/13/1999Floods claim 15 more lives in Bihar.
11/17/1994Dr. Harbhajan Singh, Punjabi poet, wins Saraswati Samman.
10/9/2000The Centre appoints Yogendra Narain as the new defence secretary and K. Sibal as the secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs while effecting a major bureaucratic reshuffle.
9/9/1949Hindi was accepted as the national language of India.
4/1/1930Government announced 15 yrs and 18 yrs as minimum marriageable age for girls and boys. This is presently remodified.