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

Today In History? 

Find out what happened on 20th January 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 occurred 20th January

Fareed Rafiq Zakaria   is an Indian-American journalist and author. From 2000 to 2010, he was a columnist for Newsweek and editor of Newsweek International. In 2010
Uppalapati Venkata Krishnam Raju  is a former popular Telugu film actor. He was popularly known as ‘Rebel Star’ for his rebellious acting style Krishnam Raju starred in more than 183 Telugu films in his career and was a prominent actor of the 1970s and 1980s in Tollywood
Baba Deep Singh   is revered among Sikhs as one of the most hallowed martyrs in Sikhism and as a highly religious person. He is remembered for his sacrifice and devotion to the teachings of the Sikh Gurus
Qurrat-ul-Ain Haider  was an influential Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. One of the most outstanding literary names in Urdu literature, she is most known for her magnum opus, Aag Ka Darya (River of Fire), a novel first published in Urdu in 1959, from Lahore, Pakistan
B.Vittalacharya or B.Vittala Acharya  was a popular director and producer of Telugu and Kannada movies. Vittala Acharya was born on January 20, 1920 in Udayavara, in then Udipi Taluk to middle class Madwa Brahmin couple as Seventh Child. He was interested in Dramas,
 

Death anniversaries on 20th January

George V  was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War (1914–1918) until his death in 1936
Parveen Babi  was an Indian actress, who is most remembered for her glamorous roles alongside top heroes of the 1970s and early 1980s in blockbusters like Deewar, Namak Halaal, Amar Akbar Anthony and Shaan.
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was an Afghan, Pashtun political and spiritual leader known for his non-violent opposition to British Rule in India. A lifelong pacifist, a devout Muslim, and a close friend of Mohandas Gandhi
Sadashiv Rao Bhau  was son of Chimaji Appa and Rakhmabai, and the nephew of Peshwa Baji Rao I. He served as the Sarsenapati (commander-in-chief) of the Maratha army at the third battle of Panipat. He died fighting at the third battle of Panipat. Sadashivrao,
Kasturbhai Lalbhai  was an Indian industrialist. He was widely perceived as a nationalist businessman akin to G. D. Birla. Kasturbhai was born in a Jain family in 1894 that owned textile mills in Ahmedabad located in current-day Gujarat.

Notable Events:

1684  Treaty between Marathas and Portuguese.
1817 Ram Mohun Roy started Hindu College in Calcutta with the help of Justice H. East David Hare. This college was later renamed as the Presidency College
1871 Sir Ratanji Jamshedji Tata, famous Indian industrialist, was born
1879  Raghunath Chaudhary, famous Assamia nature poet, was born

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