20th June – What Happened Today In History? | On This Day

Today In History?

Find out what happened on the 20th of June in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occur 20th June

 
Neetu Chandra is an Indian theater and film actress and model. Neetu Chandra was born in Patna, Bihar, India. A resident of Patliputra Colony, she did her schooling from the Notre Dame Academy, Patna, and dreamt of entering the modelling world.
Vikram Seth ( born 20 June 1952) is an Indian author and poet. [citation needed] Vikram Seth was born on 20 June 1952 in a Punjabi family to Leila and Prem Seth in Calcutta (now Kolkata). His family lived in many cities including the Bata Shoe Company town of Batanagar, Danapur near Patna, and in London.
Rahul Khanna  is an Indian actor and voice actor. Khanna was born and raised in Mumbai. His father is Bollywood matinee idol & politician, Vinod Khanna, and his younger brother is Bollywood actor, Akshaye Khanna.
Balanathan “Balu” Mahendran (born 20 May 1946 in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka) is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, and cinematographer widely regarded as part of the first in a wave of directors and screenwriters from the Chennai film industry who revitalized Tamil cinema.
Linda Arsenio (born June 20, 1978) is an American actress and model from Texas. She has predominantly appeared in Indian films in various languages. She is probably best known for her performance as Jessica Beckham in the 2006 Hindi film Kabul Express.
 

Death Anniversaries on 20th June

 
Anita Guha (1932 – 20 June 2007) was an Indian actress who usually played mythological characters in films. She became known for playing the title role in Jai Santoshi Maa (1975). Previously, she had played Sita in other mythological films “Sampoorna Ramayana” (1961), “Shree Ram Bharat Milap” (1965) and, “Tulsi Vivah” (1971).
Nawab Sayyid Hamid Ali Khan Bahadur (31 August 1875–20 June 1930) was Nawab of the princely state of Rampur from 1889 to 1930. Only thirteen when he ascended the throne of Rampur, he ruled under a regency to 1896, when Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin invested him with full ruling powers.
Guy Anson Maunsell (born September 1, 1884 – June 20, 1961) was the British civil engineer responsible for the design of the World War II Naval Sea Forts and Army Forts used by the United Kingdom for the defence of the Thames and Mersey estuaries.
Balu Sankaran is a professor, scientist and recipient of the Padma Shri and Padma Vibushan awards. He helped establish an artificial limbs manufacturing corporation and a rehabilitation institute. Sankaran was born in Tamil Nadu on 4 September 1926.
Prof. Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao, (9 September 1898–20 June 1972) was an Indian physicist in the field of Spectroscopy. Rangadhama Rao is best known for his work on Spectroscopy, his role in the development of Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (NQR), and his long association with Physics labs of Andhra University.
 

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