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Historical Event on 8/20/1995

India and China decide to withdraw four army battalions from Chu Sumdurong valley near the Line of Actual Control.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/21/1977Neelam Sanjiva Reddi was elected as the President of India.
6/19/1999The ''people's bus'' from Calcutta rolls into Dhaka and is formally received by the Prime Minister and his Bangladesh counterpart.
4/6/1992Nagpur edition of Marathi newspaper 'Loksatta' was started.
1/27/1931Mahatma Gandhi was released from jail, ending eight months of imprisonment for his campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. To avoid demonstrations, Gandhi was released late in the evening from the Yerovda jail and put on a night train to Bombay. There was hope in British circles that the release of Gandhi would end the strife and lead to discussions of dominion status. Gandhi made clear, however, that he would persist in his civil disobedience campaign.
3/25/1911L. D. Swamikannu publishes ""Manual of Indian Chronology"" in Bombay.
1/6/1942Four of the flight's six aircraft were promptly lost to Japanese bombing and No. 4 Flight gave place in Moulmein to No. 3 Flight which had meanwhile re-equipped with four ex-RAF Blenheim ls. B-314 completed first commercial flight around the world.
7/24/1998India signs a deal with Russia for purchasing the aircraft-carrier.
5/17/1999Sonia Gandhi resigns as Congress president but the CWC(I) rejects it.
2/6/1966Madurai Kamraj University established.
12/30/1974Opening of the fifth Indian Film Festival. It was presided over by Satyajit Ray at New Delhi.