Lord Mountbatten - Last Viceroy of India

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.

Mizoram Foundation Day

 

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 Death Anniversary

 

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.

Frederick Douglass Death Anniversary

 

Frederick Douglass, who passed away on 20 February 1895, was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave. It was in response to this disbelief that Douglass wrote his first autobiography.

Amrita Bazar Patrika founded in 1868

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.

Arunachal Pradesh Foundation Day

Arunachal Pradesh celebrated the Golden Jubilee of its Foundation Day on February 20, 2022. On the occasion, India Post released a commemorative stamp.

Arunachal Pradesh is a state in northeast India. It became a full-fledged state on February 20, 1987. Until 1972, it was known as the North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA). It acquired Union Territory status on January 20, 1972 and was renamed Arunachal Pradesh. Officially, the state is divided into 16 districts. Itanagar is its capital and largest town. It borders the Indian states of Assam and Nagaland to the south.