On This Day | 20 August

On this day:

1960 Senegal withdraws from the Mali Federation

1974 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed is elected fifth President of India

1993 Oslo accords negotiations conclude between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization

Born on this day:

1944 Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (1984-89), born in Bombay

1946 N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian industrialist and co-founder (Infosys), born in Shidlaghatta, Kolar district

Gone on this day:

1915 Paul Ehrlich, German physician, Nobel Prize laureate