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Historical Event on 2/20/1997
RBI relaxes capital adequacy norms for commercial banks.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/29/1885 | A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay. |
| 12/3/1882 | Nandalal Bose, great Indian painter and master, was born in Bengal. |
| 4/3/1926 | Muslim-Hindu riots destroy temples, killing 12, wounding 100 in Calcutta. |
| 6/8/1897 | Manindranath Basu, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 11/3/1991 | India's short range surface-to-air missile (SAM) 'Trishul' successfully tested. |
| 10/22/1997 | Faced with unprecedented Presidential rebuff, a divided U.F. Government reversed decision on invoking Article 356 in Uttar Pradesh. Kalyan Singh government survived. |
| 3/31/1867 | Prarthana Samaj was established by Ranade, Bhandarkar and others at Mumbai in 1864. |
| 6/22/1994 | L. V. Prasad, father of South Indian film industry, died. |
| 9/23/1743 | Sawai Jaising died. |
| 5/5/1916 | Giani Zail Singh, President of India, was born in Sandhwan village, Punjab. |
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