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Historical Event on 2/20/1929
K. B. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 8 tests from 1976-84, was born at Tamil Nadu.
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| 5/22/1963 | Rohini, Glider, became the first to successfully fly at Kanpur. |
| 1/21/1997 | Railways emerges overall champion in national road cycling championship in Calcutta. |
| 4/6/1955 | Vinayak Maharaj Masurkar, great Samarth Saint, died. |
| 9/10/1858 | Manilal Nathubhai Dwivedi, great author and father of modern Gujarati poems, was born. |
| 1/20/1995 | Supreme Court orders closure of 84 industries in and around Taj Mahal in UP due to pollution. |
| 1/26/1950 | India is proclaimed a Sovereign Democratic Republic ceasing to be a British dominion and adopted Indian Constitution which came into force. |
| 10/19/1999 | Sonia Gandhi will be the leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, says the Congress(I). |
| 1/16/1988 | L. K. Jha, famous economist and member of Rajya Sabha, died. |
| 5/11/1888 | Asaf Ali, lawyer, nationalist, writer and connoisseur of music and arts, was born. |
| 5/11/1999 | Supreme Court confirms the death sentence on four of the 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, reduces to life imprisonment the sentence on three others and acquits the remaining 19. |
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