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Historical Event on 3/20/1920
Usha Mehta, freedom fighter, was born at Satara. Her name is closely attached with freedom movement via Bombay Radio, as she and Babubhai Prasad and Vitthalbhai Zaveri founded this Radio and started motivating people of India with their telecasts.
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| 12/14/1936 | Kamalkant Bhattacharya, Assamese thinker and author, passed away. |
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| 1/9/1935 | Savita Jajodiya, famous Marathi writer, was born. |
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