20 MAY HISTORY TODAY

Today in Indian History
Events for May 20

20-May-1378	Daud Shah assasinated Mujahid Shah to become the fourth Bahmani Sultan, but himself was murdered by a slave.
20-May-1399	Saint Kabir was born.
20-May-1677	Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj won the fort of Jingi.
20-May-1750	Tipu Sultan, tiger of Mysore, was born. He was the son of Hyder Ali and born at Devanhalli village near Bangalore. Hyder Ali named his son after a great Sufi saint namely Tipu Mastan Aulia. Tipu Sultan was a great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, musician and architect.
20-May-1776	Malharrao Holkar, founder of Indoor, passed away.
20-May-1850	Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, father of modern story writing in Marathi, was born.
20-May-1878	Bahameni Sultan Dawood Shah was assassinated.
20-May-1878	Krishnashastri Chiplunkar, Marathi novelist and omnicent, passed away.
20-May-1900	Sumitranandan Pant was born.
20-May-1915	Gandhiji founded Satyagraha Ashram (later known as Sabarmati Ashram after the name of the river) at Ahmedabad.
20-May-1932	Bipinchandra Ramchandra Pal, powerful journalist and revolutionary freedom fighter, passed away. He was amongst the trio which was known as ""Lal - Bal - Pal"" during the freedom struggle. He started a newspaper called ""Swaraj"" for the Indians in England. He also edited several other newspapers like ""Tribune"", ""New India"", ""Vande Mataram"", ""Swaraj"", ""Hindu Review"", ""Democ
20-May-1940	Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), passed away.
20-May-1957	Tanguturi Prakasam, great lawyer, journalist, nationalist, politician, social reformer, leader and former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, passed away at Hyderabad.
20-May-1964	P. T. Usha, famous sprinter, was born.
20-May-1965	Under the leadership of Commander M. S. Kohli, Indian Trackers concurred Mount Everest. Captain A. S. Chima and Sherpa Nawang Gombu were the first to reach the summit.
20-May-1972	Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of 2nd Howrah bridge at Calcutta.
20-May-1976	Oil production started from Bombay High.
20-May-1987	G. G. Jadhav `Pudhari', editor of daily newspaper, passed away.
20-May-1991	A. S. L. V. was launched.
20-May-1991	General Election (10th) of India begins.
20-May-1992	Jayalalitha sacks R.M.Veerappan from her cabinet in Tamil Nadu.
20-May-1992	V.Prabhakaran, LTTE supremo, heads the list of 41 accused in the SIT chargesheet.
20-May-1992	Third developmental launch of ASLV. Stretched Rohini Satellite Series (SROSS-C). Launched by third developmental flight of ASLV-D3. This carried Gamma Ray astronomy and aeronomy payload.
20-May-1994	K. Brahmananda Reddy, 83, former Andhra Pradesh CM, passed away in Hyderabad.
20-May-1994	Indian ship rescues over 2000 Indian nationals trapped in the embattled Yemen's port city of Aden.
20-May-1996	CPI Leader Indrajit Gupta appointed pro-term speaker in the Lok Sahba.
20-May-1996	Janaki Ramachandran, chief minister of Tamil Nadu (1988), passed away.
20-May-1999	The CWC expels Sharad Pawar, M. P. A. Sangma and Tariq Anwar for six years from the primary membership of the party.