20 September in Hindu history
20 September 192820 September 1942
Sree Narayana Guru’s samadhi at Sivagiri
The saint who consecrated temples open to all, under the call of one caste, one religion, one God for humankind, leaves the body at Sivagiri near Varkala.
Kanaklata Barua shot at Gohpur
The seventeen-year-old leads a procession to raise the tricolour on the Gohpur police station in Assam and is shot dead holding the flag.