Historical Events on February 20.

1. World Day of Social Justice

2. 1846, 20th Feb: British captured Lahore.

3. 1847, 20th Feb: Royal Calcutta Turf Club was established.

4. 1947, 20th Feb: British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced that Britain would leave India by June 1948.

5. 1947, 20th Feb: Earl Mountbatten of Burma appointed as last viceroy of India to oversee the move to independence.

6. 1968, 20th Feb: First-time heart transplant was done at K E M Hospital, Mumbai. Dr. P K Sen performed this complex surgery.

7. 1976, 20th Feb: Bombay High Field commenced the production of crude oil for commercial use.

8. 1987, 20th Feb: Mizoram became the 23rd state of India.

9. 2014, 20th Feb: Telangana became the 29th state of India.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on February 20.

1. 1844: Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, an Austrian physicist, and philosopher.

2. 1900: Rattanbai Jinnah, the wife of Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

3. 1901: Mohamed Naguib, an Egyptian politician and the first President and Prime Minister of Egypt.

4. 1917: Kaif Bhopali, an Indian Urdu poet and lyricist. 

5. 1956: Annu Kapoor, an Indian film actor and television presenter.

6. 1988: Rihanna, a Barbadian singer, actress, and businesswoman.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on February 20.

1. 1895: Frederick Douglass, an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

2. 1950: Sarat Chandra Bose, an Indian barrister, and independence activist.

3. 1960: Kothainayaki Ammal, a Tamil writer, novelist, and journalist. 

4. 1993: Ferruccio Lamborghini, an Italian industrialist. He created an Automobile Lamborghini.

5. 2015: Govind Pansare, a left-wing Indian politician of the Communist Party of India.

20-February-1846

Duleep Singh was recognised as the ruler. British captured Lahore.

20-February-1847

Turf Club of Royal Calcutta was established.

20-February-1863

Pandit A. R. Rajrajvarma, famous Malyalam poet, grammer expert and Sanskrit expert, was born.

20-February-1868

Sisir Kumar, Basanta Kumar and Hemanta Kumar, three brothers, first published the 'Amrita Bazar Partika', a weekly issue in Bengali.

20-February-1928

Abaji Narayan Pednekar, children's story writer, was born.

20-February-1929

K. B. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 8 tests from 1976-84, was born at Tamil Nadu.

20-February-1947

British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced in the House of Commons, London, that Britain will release India before June 1948 and for this purpose Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed to work as the new Viceroy of India.

20-February-1950

Sarat Chandra Bose, freedom fighter, journalist, leader and elder brother of Subhashchandra Bose, passed away.

20-February-1953

India opens $ 140 mil. power system modeled after TVA.

20-February-1968

Dr Prafulla Kumar Sen and others performed the first ever heart transplantion in Asia. The operation was performed by the Indian surgeons at K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay.

20-February-1968

First Edition of 'Amrit Bazar Patrika' weekly was published in Bengali language.

20-February-1976

Production of Crude Oil started from offshore Bombay High near Mumbai.

20-February-1982

The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members of Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was finally shifted to College of Materials Management Jabalpur. The original memorial was erected on 15 Apr 1946 from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.

20-February-1985

Bhawani Prasad Mishra, progressive Hindi poet, passed away. His most famous poem is "Main Geet Bechtaa Hun".

20-February-1987

Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh becomes the 23rd and 24th states of Indian Union.

20-February-1987

Lok Dal splits over leadership issue.

20-February-1992

Pandit Gauri Shankar, famous dance director in Hindi films, passed away.

20-February-1993

Government decides to form an Autonomous Council for the tribals within Assam to solve Bodo issue.

20-February-1994

Government makes the first appointment under 27\% reservation for Other Backward Classes in Central Services and Public Sector Undertaking.

20-February-1997

RBI relaxes capital adequacy norms for commercial banks.

20-February-1999

India and Pakistan signed a formal agreement for launching the Delhi-Lahore bus service.

20-February-1999

Mr. Vajpayee travels to Lahore on the inaugural run of the bus between New Delhi and Lahore.

20-February-2000

India-born Mr. Ujjal Dosanjh (52), leader of New Democratic Party, sworn in Canada's first Indo-Canadian Premier of British Columbia.

20-February-2000

Supreme Court stays the Karnataka High Court's order quashing charges framed against the former Chief Minister, Mr. S. Bangarappa, and directs the trial court to proceed in the corruption case.