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Historical Event on 3/20/1952
Anand Armitraj, great Indian tennis player (Brother of Vijay), was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/2/1926 | The worst Hindu-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta. |
| 5/23/1995 | TADA expires and new Anti-Terrorists Activities Law proposed. Criminal Law Amendment Bill, 1995, voting put off; Lok Sabha passes Finance Bill 1995. |
| 1/10/1980 | President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy invited Indira Gandhi to form Government. |
| 7/30/1992 | The Supreme Court declares that capitation fee in educational institutions is unlawful. |
| 4/8/1950 | Nehru and Ali Khan sign the Indo-Pakistani Pact. |
| 1/14/1761 | The third and last battle of Panipat, fought between the Marathas and the Afghan invader Ahmad Shah Abadli, started. The Marathas lost 28,000 soldiers and were virtually routed in North India thus ending the Maratha hegemony. |
| 7/23/1904 | The Great Indian Peninsula Railway started First Class restaurant cars on its mail trains. |
| 4/28/1945 | Ajit Manohar Pai, cricketer (one Test India v NZ 1969), was born in Bombay. |
| 10/19/1910 | Subrahamanyam Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore. He was one of the world's leading astrophysicists. For his contributions to the study of stars, Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science, the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983. |
| 8/18/1951 | Indian Institute of Technology was opened in Kharagpur, West Bengal. |
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