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Historical Event on 09/20/1388

Firuz Shah Tughluq, the third emperor of Delhi, died at the age of 83.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/1/1966Punjab High Court was renamed as Punjab & Haryana High Court. This court was established in Chandigarh for Punjab, Haryana & Chandigarh territory.
12/23/1977Harvinder Singh, great Indian ODI pace-bowler (1997), was born.
9/1/1928Arun Kumar Seal, educationist, was born at Vishnupur.
5/26/1998Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, economist, was awarded the 1998 Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidmeiny Foundation.
9/8/1965Pakistan commenced its drive into the Indian Punjab using its 1-armoured division with the aim to foreclose India's options north of the Beas-Sutlej river line, after foiling the southern most divisional attack mounted by 4-Mountain Division.
4/5/1993K. Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy, Andhra Pradesh's CM, defeats TDP's Renuka Chowdhary by 31,611 votes in the Panyam Assembly election.
5/17/1974Durgadas, famous Indian journalist, passed away.
10/19/1983Union Government takes over the management of 13 textile undertakings in Bombay; marathon strike in cotton textile industry ends.
12/27/1931150 are arrested following 'red shirt' riots in the N.W. Frontier province.
4/8/1992Congress (I) government led by Rajkumar Dorendra Singh sworn in in Manipur.