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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 04/20/1236 |
Iltutmish, father of Radiya Sultan, died in Delhi. |
| 04/20/1887 |
Padmabhushan Jemini Roy, famous painter, was born. |
| 04/20/1888 |
246 reported killed by an hail storm in Moradabad, India. |
| 04/20/1914 |
Gopinath Mahanti, famous Oriya novelist and Gyanpeeth awardee, was born. |
| 04/20/1930 |
The Viceroy imposes an ordinance for the suppression of terrorism, following a series of attacks. |
| 04/20/1938 |
Bhartacharya Chintamanrao Vinayak Vaidya, omnicient research scientist and expert of Marathi and English languages, passed away. |
| 04/20/1954 |
Panchsheel agreement between China and India. |
| 04/20/1960 |
Pannalal Ghosh, famous flute player, passed away. |
| 04/20/1965 |
First Indian team led by M. S. Kohli ascends the Everest. |
| 04/20/1971 |
Air India started Boing 707 Jumbo Jet flight between Bombay and London. |
| 04/20/1971 |
India won Cricket Test Rubber' for the first time after defeating West Indies Cricket Team. |
| 04/20/1973 |
Rioting over food shortages ends after three days in Nagpur. |
| 04/20/1989 |
R. S. Pathak, Chief Justice of India, elected to the World Court. |
| 04/20/1989 |
Launching of IRBM `Agni' fails. |
| 04/20/1989 |
President's rule imposed in Karnataka. |
| 04/20/1991 |
Ganesh Sadashiv Bhat, famous Marathi film director and President's Award winner of 1963, passed away. |
| 04/20/1992 |
U. K. Kanitkar, famous scientist, and professor, passed away. |
| 04/20/1993 |
Jharkhand Movement suspends its 36-days old economic blockade. |
| 04/20/1997 |
Sheri Bamboat and Hamshad Bamboat win National sea-bird sailing title. |
| 04/20/2000 |
A full bench of the Madras High Court quashes the Tamil Nadu Government order making Tamil (or mother tongue) as the compulsory medium of instruction in all schools in the State up to Standard V. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 02/09/1942 | Chiang Kai-Shek meets Sir Stafford Cripps, British Viceroy in India. |
| 05/04/1994 | Fourth developmental launch of ASLV. 113 kg Stretched Rohini Satellite Series (SROSS-C2) was launched by fourth developmental flight of ASLV-D4 from Sriharikota. This carried two scientific payload, a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) experiment and a Retarding Potential Analyser (RPA). It is still in service. |
| 07/16/1991 | Railway budget hikes passenger fares by 15-20\% and freight up by 10\%. |
| 10/15/1915 | Dr. I. Gopalkrishnan, Cricket Test Umpire for 7 tests from 1960-67, was born in Tamil Nadu. |
| 12/10/1997 | Salman Haidar appointed India's High Commissioner to Britain. He succeeded M. L. Singhvi. |
| 10/13/1877 | Bhulabhai Desai, politician, was born. |
| 07/21/1934 | Chandrakant Gulabrao Borde, cricket batsman (55 Tests for India 1959-67), was born in Pune. |
| 03/12/1996 | Last session of the 10th Lok Sabha ends. |
| 11/29/1962 | Haryana achieved their target of supplying electricity to 100\% villages. |
| 09/12/1898 | Baldev Prasad Mishra, Hindi litterateur, was born. |
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