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Historical Event on 6/20/1858
Gwalior fort was captured by British troops and the first Indian Sepoy Mutiny officially came to an end.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/18/1938 | Shashi Kapoor, famous film producer, director, actor and dramatist, was born in Calcutta. He has made sucessful films like Junoon, Kaliyug, Heat and Dust, etc. |
| 8/3/1991 | About 280 kgs of gold ornaments valued at $15 million, which had been deposited in the Portuguese bank in Goa by its natives, flown back to India. |
| 8/4/1933 | Gandhi is imprisoned for one year for breaking a restraint order. |
| 10/24/1851 | First official telegraph line was opened between Calcutta and Daimond Harbour spanning 33.8 km. |
| 8/17/1761 | William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till his death and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people. |
| 2/25/1993 | 113 MPs arrested and Murali Manohar Joshi injured in police action. |
| 3/17/1988 | First operational Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1A) launched by a Russian Vostok. IRS system under National Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS) coordinated at national level by the Planning Committee of NNRMS (PC-NNRMS) and the data from IRS satellites is processed by the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad. SI, a US Company, also receives and markets IRS data worldwide under a commercial contract with Antrix Corporation of the Department of Space. |
| 12/21/1999 | The Gujarat Government asks the Hindu Jagran March to go-ahead with the 'Shilanyas' for a Ram temple at Halmodi in Surat district. |
| 10/20/1991 | Pandit Kalyandas Mahaprasad, famous Kathak dancer, died. |
| 8/2/1781 | Sakharambapu Bokeel, great politician in Maratha kingdom, died. |
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