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Historical Event on 5/20/1976

Oil production started from Bombay High.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/16/1991Indian Airliner Boeing 737 crashes in Manipur's Churachandpur district killing all 69 aboard.
6/15/1966U.S. resumes full economic aid to India and Pakistan.
7/18/1980Second Experimental launch of Space Launch Vehicle -3 (SLV-3) by Indian made 35 kilogram Rohini satellite (RS-1) successfully placed in orbit. It was used for measuring in-flight performance of second experimental launch of SLV-3. The launch took from Sriharikota and India became the sixth nation to put a satellite into orbit.
1/3/1922Kirat Chothairam Babani, versatile Sindhi Writer and Journalist, was born.
5/1/1998The Konkan Railway running for 760-km is dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This was an extention from Ratnagiri.
7/6/1944Mahatama Gandhi was for the first time addressed as 'Father of Nation'.
3/30/1929Weekly postal service across 5,000-miles by aeroplane started between England and India serving India, Egypt, Palestine and Iraq in London.
11/5/1892John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, biologist, was born at Oxford.
1/6/1987Establishment of 'Maharashtra Journalist Fund' Trust.
9/21/1945British promise India independence.