May20

Gandhiji founded Satyagraha Ashram (later known as Sabarmati Ashram after the name of the river) at Ahmedabad.

Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of 2nd Howrah bridge at Calcutta.

V. Prabhakaran, LTTE supremo, heads the list of 41 accused in the SIT chargesheet.

G. G. Jadhav `Pudhari', editor of daily newspaper, passed away.

Saint Kabir was born.

Tipu Sultan, tiger of Mysore, was born. He was the son of Hyder Ali and born at Devanhalli village near Bangalore. Hyder Ali named his son after a great Sufi saint namely Tipu Mastan Aulia. Tipu Sultan was a great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, musician and architect.

Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, father of modern story writing in Marathi, was born.

Sumitranandan Pant was born.

P. T. Usha, famous sprinter, was born.

Bipinchandra Ramchandra Pal, powerful journalist and revolutionary freedom fighter, passed away. He was amongst the trio which was known as "Lal - Bal - Pal" during the freedom struggle. He started a newspaper called "Swaraj" for the Indians in England. He also edited several other newspapers like "Tribune", "New India", "Vande Mataram", "Swaraj", "Hindu Review", "Democrat", "Independent Bengali", etc.

Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Count of Vidigueira, met the Jamerin of Calicut after arriving in India three days ago at Malabar Coast. He was joined by an experienced Gujarati pilot at Malindi. He was the 6th Governor and 2nd Viceroy of India.

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj won the fort of Jingi.

Oil production started from Bombay High.

A. S. L. V. was launched.

Third developmental launch of ASLV. Stretched Rohini Satellite Series (SROSS-C). Launched by third developmental flight of ASLV-D3. This carried Gamma Ray astronomy and aeronomy payload.

Indian ship rescues over 2000 Indian nationals trapped in the embattled Yemen's port city of Aden.

Daud Shah assasinated Mujahid Shah to become the fourth Bahmani Sultan, but himself was murdered by a slave.

Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), passed away.

Malharrao Holkar, founder of Indoor, passed away.

Krishnashastri Chiplunkar, Marathi novelist and omnicent, passed away.

Tanguturi Prakasam, great lawyer, journalist, nationalist, politician, social reformer, leader and former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, passed away at Hyderabad.

K. Brahmananda Reddy, 83, former Andhra Pradesh CM, passed away in Hyderabad.

Janaki Ramachandran, chief minister of Tamil Nadu (1988), passed away.

General Election (10th) of India begins.

Jayalalitha sacks R. M. Veerappan from her cabinet in Tamil Nadu.

CPI Leader Indrajit Gupta appointed pro-term speaker in the Lok Sahba.

The CWC expels Sharad Pawar, M. P. A. Sangma and Tariq Anwar for six years from the primary membership of the party.