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Historical Event on 1/20/1948
1. Bomb exploded near Birla House during a prayer meeting of Gandhi. 2. Three member UN Commission for investigation/mediation on Kashmir. 3. K.M. Cariappa succeeded Lieutenant General D. Rissell as the Army Commander, Delhi and East Punjab and was responsible for conducting the operation in Kashmir.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/19/2000 | M.A. Chidambaram (81), leading industrialist and chairman of the MAC Group, died in Chennai. |
| 8/8/1990 | Naval Godrej, famous Industrialist, died. |
| 9/30/1997 | At least 20 civilians were killed and over 30 injured in unprovoked firing by Pakistani troops on Kargil town in Jammu&Kashmir. |
| 1/1/1978 | Samrat (Emperor) Ashoka, Air India's first Jumbo-Jet Boeing 747, after explosion falls into Arabian Sea, killing 213 people. Nobody survived. |
| 11/17/1915 | Vishnu Gopal Pingle was hanged for revolting against the Indian Army in Talegaon prison of Pune. |
| 1/9/1995 | Manipur Assembly removes Dr.H. Borobabu (Speaker) and suspends his membership until state election. |
| 8/7/1985 | Geet Sethi, national champion, was the third Indian to become World Amateur Billiards Champion by beating Robert Marshal of Australia. |
| 1/24/1966 | Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha, chairmain of Atomic Research Institute, passed away near Geneva when Air India Boeing 707 crashed in accident at Alps Hills, Mont Blanc in Switzerland killing all the 117 persons on board. |
| 3/19/1999 | Salgaocar emerged National Football League champions in Calcutta with a match to spare. |
| 6/6/1935 | Harry Crews, great US writer and actor (Indian Runner), was born. |
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