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Historical Event on 4/20/1888
246 reported killed by an hail storm in Moradabad, India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/1/1972 | All fuel coal mines were nationalised. |
| 10/18/1993 | Mandakini Athvale, first child actor of Indian film industry, died. |
| 10/13/1679 | More than 20,000 lives were claimed near Massurla Pattanam city, costal area of South India, in a severe storm. |
| 5/11/1999 | Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case: The Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence on four of the 26 accused, life imprisionment to three and acquitted the remaining 19 people. |
| 2/16/1962 | General Election ( 3rd) of India begins. |
| 5/28/1968 | Bhagwan Gopinathji Bhan, was a mystic saint of early 20th century Kashmir in India. He has been called a ""jivanmukta"" (liberated soul) or ""Aghoreshwar"" and his spiritual state has been described as ""Shambhavi Avastha"" (state of Shiva), died. He was a great devotee of Shiva and Shakti and took intense "Sadhana". His disciples and devotees set up an ashram at Kharyar in Srinagar in his name. |
| 12/1/1994 | Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. |
| 4/6/1955 | Vinayak Maharaj Masurkar, great Samarth Saint, died. |
| 12/21/1956 | The Hindu Adoption Sub-Act 1956 was accepted. |
| 2/1/1942 | No. 4 Squadron of the IAF was born in the war at Peshawar. The Squadron was first equipped with Lysander aircraft. The Second World War was in its third year and Japanese forces were advancing towards India's eastern frontiers. |
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