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20 September
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The Hindu, an Indian newspaper, is founded
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Shriram Sharma Acharya
Indian founder of the All World Gayatri Pariwar.
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Kanaklata Barua was shot while carrying the national flag during the Quit India Movement.
Kanaklata Barua: Assam’s Youngest Martyr of the Quit India Movement
On 20 September 1942 CE, a seventeen-year-old girl from a small village in Assam picked up the national flag, stepped to the front of a procession, and walked…
Read the storyMohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru demand that all British troops depart India
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IRS-1E launched
India launched the experimental IRS-1E remote-sensing satellite.
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