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Historical Event on 3/20/1602

United East India Company of the Netherlands i.e. Dutch East India Company was chartered by States-General of Holland. During its 96-year history, it became one of the world's most powerful companies.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/19/1905Prince and Princess of Wales leave on an official visit to India at London.
12/4/1910Motilal, famous film actor, was born.
9/21/1954Last Indian troops withdraw from Tibet.
8/1/1953All Private Airlines were nationalised by establishing of All Airlines India International.
5/6/1967Dr. Zakir Hussain elected President.
4/22/1958Admiral R. T. Katari was appointed as the first Indian Chief of the Naval Staff.
6/17/1903Jyotiprasad Agarwal, Assamia playwright, poet and music director, was born.
10/2/1942Menka Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested by the police when she and her friends were carrying out Gandhi Jayanti procession. She was tortured with cigar butts and the administration set her house on fire.
1/11/1999Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu.
7/1/1913Kumarmanglam Parasshiv Prabhakar, former Chief of Indian Army, was born.