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Historical Event on 6/20/1979
Renedy Singh, Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Manipur.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/12/1990 | Konkan Railway project formally launched with the opening of a project office in Ratnagiri in Maharashtra State. |
| 6/5/1995 | Manmohan Singh re-elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam. |
| 7/16/1997 | Kamal Hassan gets best actor award for ''Indian'' while Tabu bags best actress award for ''Maachis''. |
| 6/8/1948 | Malabar Princess', Air India's first international flight, takes off from Bombay to London via Cairo and Geneva. This was weekly air service was started between India to United Kingdom. |
| 10/11/1876 | Saint Gadgebaba, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 2/15/1951 | Stephen H. Smith, father and pioneer of Indian Aero Philately or air borne mail, passed away. |
| 9/28/2000 | Marion Jones wins the 200m gold medal at Sydney. |
| 5/1/1922 | Madhu Limaye, great politician, freedom fighter, writer and national leader, was born at Pune, Maharashtra. |
| 7/20/1990 | GOI notifies restrictions on liberal import policy announced earlier. The restrictions will cut the import bill by about Rs. 1000 crore. |
| 1/2/1947 | Mahatma Gandhi met Lord Bevin, the personal emissary of British Prime Minister Winston Churchil, in Delhi. Beven is reported to have told the great man, ''Eighteen languages, 500 dialects, some 30 religions, a million Gods and Goddesses, 300 million individuals, an infinity of castes and sub castes, and a population (that is) practically illiterate and half of which (are) beggars or thieves... Good luck, sir! Such a nation is ungovernable! It'd take you centuries to get anywhere!''. Gandhiji wrapped his large, white shawl a little more closely around him, and modestly replied, 'India has eternity before her.. and ""All around me is utter darkness"". |
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