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Historical Event on 4/20/1971

India won Cricket Test Rubber' for the first time after defeating West Indies Cricket Team.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/20/1885First meeting of the Indian National Congress held.
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5/17/1775Marathas were badly mauled in the battle of Arras by Col. Keating in the first Anglo - Maratha war.
7/25/1958Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, inaugurated.
5/27/1999Sharad Pawar, Tariq Anwar and P.A. Sangma launch the Nationalist Congress Party.
12/29/1949Syed Mujtaba Hussain Kirmani, cricketer (Indian keeper after Engineer), was born in Madras.
11/25/1999Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is appointed Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India.
3/26/1997Russia agrees to help India in developing a state-of-the-art integrated air defence system, even as the two agree to carry military cooperation into the 21st century during the visit of Prime Minister Deve Gowda.
1/25/1914Gandhi reaches agreement with South African Union govt. on treatment of Indian nationals at South Africa.
7/1/1930Vinodkumar C. Gupta, leader in Maharashtra, was born.