On 20 February 1947, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee
announced that all the powers would be handed over to the Government of India.
As per the Cabinet Mission, the British Government was to quit India by June
1948. In March 1947, Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed as the Viceroy
of India in place of Lord Wavell.
On 20 February 1987, Mizoram became a full-fledged state.
Mizoram is one among the seven sister states of north-eastern
India. Aizawl is its seat of government as well as capital city. Name of this
state is derived from Mizo and Ram’ which means land in the Mizo language.
Thus, Mizoram means “land of the Mizos”. It is the southernmost landlocked
state among northeast region of India. The state share borders with three
states namely Tripura, Manipur and Assam. It also shares a722-kilometre border
with Bangladesh and Myanmar.
Maria Goeppert Mayer, who passed away on 20 February
1972, was a German-born American theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate
in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus. She was
the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics, the first being Marie
Curie.
Amrita Bazar Patrika, was one of the oldest daily newspapers in India founded on 20 February 1868, Originally published in Bengali script, it evolved into an English format published from Kolkata and other locations such as Cuttack, Ranchi and Allahabad. The paper discontinued its publication in 1991 after 123 years of publication.
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