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Historical Event on 7/20/1680
Chhatrapati Sambhaji was throne.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/7/1975 | Indian Supreme Court validates election of Indira Gandhi at New Delhi. |
| 8/30/1979 | Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'. |
| 9/17/1876 | Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay was born in Debanandpur village. |
| 11/14/1997 | N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh. |
| 9/5/1988 | The country goes without newspapers on this day as the entire newspaper industry had protested against the Defamation Bill. |
| 5/1/1992 | Seperate secretariat was established for primary education. |
| 10/12/1967 | Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia also known as "Dauntless Dr. Lohia", freedom fighter, social reformer and socialist leader, died at the Willingdon Nursing Home, New Delhi. He had founded the 'Praja Socialist Party' in 195 |
| 11/16/1962 | Chinese troops launch a major offensive in the frontier war. |
| 12/31/1988 | Treaty signed between India and Pakistan for not to target nuclear sites of each other. |
| 4/3/1857 | Queen Victoria declared as Queen of India also. |
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